{"id":1004150647,"date":"2016-08-23T02:14:04","date_gmt":"2016-08-23T10:14:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/?p=1004150647"},"modified":"2021-05-15T06:50:26","modified_gmt":"2021-05-15T14:50:26","slug":"chinese-company-tests-waters-in-silicon-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/chinese-company-tests-waters-in-silicon-valley\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Company Tests Waters in Silicon Valley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Scott Baltic, Contributing Editor<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1004150648\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2016\/08\/Screen-Shot-2016-08-22-at-10.38.49-PM.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1004150648\" data-attachment-id=\"1004150648\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/chinese-company-tests-waters-in-silicon-valley\/screen-shot-2016-08-22-at-10-38-49-pm\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2016\/08\/Screen-Shot-2016-08-22-at-10.38.49-PM.png\" data-orig-size=\"1000,604\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Screen Shot 2016-08-22 at 10.38.49 PM\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2016\/08\/Screen-Shot-2016-08-22-at-10.38.49-PM.png?w=1000\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1004150648 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2016\/08\/Screen-Shot-2016-08-22-at-10.38.49-PM.png\" alt=\"8407 Central Ave., Newark, Calif.\" width=\"300\" height=\"181\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2016\/08\/Screen-Shot-2016-08-22-at-10.38.49-PM.png 1000w, https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2016\/08\/Screen-Shot-2016-08-22-at-10.38.49-PM.png?resize=300,181 300w, https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2016\/08\/Screen-Shot-2016-08-22-at-10.38.49-PM.png?resize=768,464 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1004150648\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">8407 Central Ave., Newark, Calif.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>San Francisco<\/strong>\u2014The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dobechina.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">DOBE Group<\/a>\u00a0of Shanghai has just opened a 40,000-square-foot co-working site in Newark, Calif., on the edge of Silicon Valley, the company announced Friday. DOBE leases the building, at 8407 Central Ave. in Newark, only a short distance from Palo Alto by way of Hwy. 84 and the Dumbarton Bridge, from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.s-b-s.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Smart Business Solutions<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>DOBE Group reportedly sees itself as a \u201cbusiness embassy,\u201d that is, \u201chelping overseas companies in the cultural and creative industry enter the Chinese market and helping their Chinese counterparts go international.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince this is DOBE\u2019s first U.S. project, we only leased one building to test the water,\u201d DOBE project director Kate Zhang told<a href=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> <em>Commercial Property Executive<\/em><\/a>. \u201cIf the project is proven to be successful in the next few years, we intend to lease or even purchase the nearby buildings from SBS,\u201d with the potential ultimate goal of assembling an office park.<\/p>\n<p>The proto-park\u2019s name is DOBE WE\u201d International Hub at Silicon Valley, according to Zhang, and the building is currently 50 percent (sub)leased, with the second floor still available. Target tenants include companies and start-ups in technology, fashion and design, and the hope is also to connect with research being done at area universities.<\/p>\n<p>Zhang added that DOBE has just entered into a strategic partnership with the Association of Computing Machinery\u2019s San Francisco Bay chapter, to facilitate networking and resource-sharing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shanghai-based DOBE Group has entered the U.S. market with the opening of a co-working space in Newark, Calif.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":882,"featured_media":1004150648,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21782,21808,21742,21747,1609,21787,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1004150647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-development","category-featured","category-latest","category-office","category-san-francisco","category-technology","category-west"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v23.4 (Yoast SEO v24.6) - 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