SAN JOSE — A huge housing development with several hundred residences could be built on the site that once housed the Fry’s Electronics headquarters and one of the failed retailer’s most iconic stores, city documents show.
The tech industry’s move to significantly scale back its appetite for new plans for office space in the Bay Area, including Silicon Valley, has made speculative office projects a much less feasible proposition. All told, at least 500 residential units — and possibly more than 1,000 housing units — might be built on the Fry’s property, which is on a choice site near the Interchange of Interstate 880 and East Brokaw Road.The Bay West Development proposal calls for the redevelopment of the entire Fry’s Electronics site in north San Jose, which means an existing store site and warehouse would be bulldozed to clear the way for the project.