Part of Roseville's former Hewlett-Packard campus is on track to swap cubicles for roll-up doors, as a developer moves ahead with plans for a small-bay industrial park aimed at light manufacturers, contractors and local service firms. The filing marks the latest push to finally put long-planned HP Campus/Oaks acreage to work.
The proposal first surfaced publicly on May 1 in the Sacramento Business Journal, which outlined early renderings and basic project details tied to the HP Campus Oaks land. As described in that report, the plan would break the site into multiple smaller industrial buildings designed for local tenants instead of a single massive logistics user.
Site and master plan
The project site is tucked inside the Hewlett-Packard Campus/Oaks planning area, a long-running city blueprint that anticipates a blend of employment, commercial, residential and park uses across the broader campus. City planning documents show the Campus Oaks plan covering roughly 375.7 acres, with an expectation of about 1.73 million square feet of employment and commercial development. The city's Projects of Interest list also flags the application and identifies Sunny Dharni's Hayden Park LLC as the property owner. For more on the framework and ownership, see the HP Campus Oaks Master Plan and the city's Projects of Interest page.
Developer, design and renderings
Public renderings tied to the filing depict a cluster of low-rise, modular-style buildings with shared drive aisles and landscaping, geared to small industrial tenants rather than one giant warehouse operator. The media coverage credits Perkins, Williams & Cotterill Inc. for the image used, signaling that a local architectural team has had a hand in the concept visuals, according to the Sacramento Business Journal.
Why small-bay is in play
Across the country and around the Sacramento region, developers have been leaning hard into small-bay and multi-tenant light-industrial projects because they fit how a lot of local businesses actually operate. Contractors, specialty manufacturers and growing service firms tend to want compact, flexible space, shorter lease terms or the chance to buy a unit outright rather than committing to big-box logistics footprints. Industry reporting points to strong investor appetite for this kind of product and tight occupancies in many submarkets, with regional deal activity in the Sacramento area highlighted by Small Bay List and broader sector analysis available from CBRE.
What happens next
The Roseville project is currently listed on the city's Projects of Interest tracker and is slated for a City Council hearing on May 6, 2026, according to city planning materials. That meeting is the next formal checkpoint in the public review. If the council signs off at that stage, the development would move into the design-review and permitting phase set out in the master plan, along with any environmental review required under local rules and CEQA.
For longtime watchers of the HP site, the small-bay plan is one more sign that Roseville's former single-employer campus is steadily morphing into a broader employment hub that mixes light industrial, office and open-space uses. City filings and the May 6 council docket will offer the next round of details, along with any community feedback that surfaces once the project is up for public discussion.
