Fourteen buildings that could hold your office and assembly floor

We screened every industrial and flex building for sale across the South Bay and East Bay and ranked what is left on whether it can actually do the job: take an office headcount, power a bench line, move a crated arm out the door, and be delivered to you empty.

Three benches, three stages, and a dock. What the buildings below have to hold.

Working brief. Small owner user facility for office and assembly of robotics, South Bay or East Bay. Size, budget, timing and program are still open pending your input, so this first pass is deliberately wide: 5,000 to 30,000 SF, no price ceiling applied. Tell us where the real boundaries are and we will re-rank against them.

How we ranked these

Every building was scored on facility capability first. Nothing here is scored on proximity to an existing building, because you do not have a Bay Area footprint to sit near yet. Location is scored as market tier instead, which is a stated part of your brief.

Scores are then expressed as a match band on each card rather than a number, because the gap between a 79 and a 77 is smaller than the uncertainty in the underlying data. Every grade carries the field it came from, under Full details on each card. You can drag the cards into your own order at any time.

Where these sit

Two clusters. The Silicon Valley core runs from Santa Clara through Sunnyvale into San Jose. The I-880 corridor runs from Fremont up through Hayward to San Leandro, where the same money buys noticeably more building.

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What we need from you to sharpen this

This list is built on a working brief. Six answers would let us cut it to a short list you could tour in a single day, and would change the ranking materially.

Budget ceilingThe set below runs from $2.0M to $12.85M. A hard number removes roughly half of it immediately. Tell us whether you are financing conventionally or looking at SBA 504, which changes what you can reach.

Headcount, now and in three yearsThis drives office square footage and parking, which is the binding constraint on several of these buildings, more than the shop floor is.

Split between office and assembly floorWe assumed roughly 30 to 50 percent office. If you need a clean room, an environmental chamber or a test cell, say so now, because that reshapes the list.

Electrical loadBench power for arm test stands and charging adds up quickly. Give us an amperage target and we will drop anything that would need a service upgrade you do not want to fund.

Own or leaseEverything here is for sale. If leasing is on the table the inventory roughly triples and the timeline shortens considerably.

How far from the engineering teamYour careers page points to a Silicon Valley engineering base. If a Hayward or San Leandro commute is acceptable, the value per dollar improves a lot. If it is not, the list gets shorter and more expensive.