The place where you found the perfect ugly Christmas sweater has big plans for 2026. Goodwill Silicon Valley is developing a one-of-a-kind nonprofit supercenter in a former office tower next to the San Jose Mineta International Airport.
The purchase of the eight-story, 200,000-square-foot building at 1600 Technology Drive was made possible by a surprise $10 million gift from MacKenzie Scott, the philanthropist once married to Jeff Bezos. That, plus widespread commercial market distress, allowed Goodwill to acquire the property for its new HQ last year for $17 million — a nearly 80% discount from the 2012 sale price.
Scott’s donation, just a fraction of the more than $4 billion she gifted to nonprofits at the end of 2020, is the largest in the organization’s history. Goodwill invested and grew the funds over the last few years, putting it in the perfect position to pounce on the 2024 debt sale on the defaulted property, which was built in 2001…