“The strong economy and surge in construction over the last several years, especially in California, have fueled the need to open these regional offices,” said DPR’s Eric Lamb. “The new offices will allow us to better serve existing and potential clients in Silicon Valley and the East Bay, as well as offer opportunities for DPR employees to work closer to home.”

Employees in the 7,300-sq.-ft. San Jose office moved into the renovated two-story former bank building in October. Mountain View, CA-based CAS Architects designed the office in DPR’s traditional open-office style.

DPR San Jose’s current projects include the construction of the 800,000-sq.-ft., six-building Sun Microsystems Phase III campus in Newark, CA, adjacent to the 700,000-sq.-ft. Phase II Sun campus DPR previously built, and the addition of building 5 West for the KLA-Tencor campus in Milpitas, CA. DPR San Jose also recently completed a data center expansion for UUNet and is currently constructing a new headquarters for Aspect Communication, a 135,000-sq.-ft., interior build-out for Lattice Semiconductor’s new offices, 250,000 sq. ft. for Sun Microsystems’ Lincoln Techpark campus, and 80,000 sq. ft. for Ultratech Stepper, all located in San Jose.

DPR’s East Bay office has signed a lease for 10,300 sq. ft. of a three-story building in Pleasanton. Scheduled to open in November 2000, the new location will house 20-30 employees. Dowler-Gruman Architects is creating the new look for this office.

DPR’s Pleasanton-area projects include headquarters and research facilities for Roche Molecular Systems, a new headquarters for Sybase and a manufacturing facility for Clorox. Other East Bay projects, such as a new headquarters for Safeway, a data center for WorldCom in Milpitas, a corporate campus for Pixar in Emeryville, the Berkeley Music Library for the University of California, Berkeley, and a large medical office-building project in Union City, spurred the decision to open this regional office.