SAN JOSE, Calif. — TikTok has completed a rental deal for a big San Jose tech building, a transaction that suggests some pockets of strength still exist in a feeble Bay Area commercial real estate sector.

The fast-expanding tech company has subleased an office building at 1143 Coleman Avenue in San Jose, according to documents filed on March 19 with the Santa Clara County Recorder’s Office.

The just-subleased office building is located in the Coleman Highline tech campus, a mixed-use development on Coleman Avenue and just across the street from San Jose International Airport.

China-based ByteDance, the owner of TikTok, already occupies a big office complex in Coleman Highline.

In 2022, Bytedance subleased 658,000 square feet of new office space that encompasses the entirety of two buildings with addresses of 1193 and 1199 Coleman Avenue. ByteDance, whose logo is visible next to these two buildings, moved into the offices in early 2023.

ByteDance has not specified whether the 1193 and 1199 Coleman sites are being used for TikTok operations, solely ByteDance, or some combination of the two firms. That space was subleased from Yahoo.

In September 2023, Roku, which rents several buildings in Coleman Highline, revealed in a regulatory filing that it had decided to slash its office footprint at the tech campus and would attempt to sublease two of the buildings it occupies.

The two buildings that Roku said it had decided to sublease are at 1143 Coleman Avenue and 1155 Coleman Avenue, the regulatory filing states.

The 1143 Coleman building that TikTok subleased from Roku totals 162,600 square feet, while the other building at 1155 Coleman totals 194,500 square feet, according to a brochure prepared by Colliers, a commercial real estate firm.

The county real estate records state that TikTok is subleasing the 1143 Coleman building from Roku, which was identified as the tenant.

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