Fremont is keeping one of its marquee tech tenants. Tableau has renewed a major lease at the neighborhood’s Data 1 building, holding onto roughly 114,000 square feet and keeping the Salesforce-owned analytics arm rooted in a core block of its Seattle campus. In a market still reshaped by years of tech downsizing, the extension reads as a clear vote of confidence in Fremont.
Deal details
As reported by the Puget Sound Business Journal, Tableau has renewed its roughly 114,000-square-foot lease at the Data 1 building. The coverage notes that the Salesforce division will remain in the building after its current lease, which runs through 2029. The Journal situates the renewal against a backdrop of cutbacks across larger tech office portfolios in recent years, making this deal stand out a bit from the pack.
About Data 1
Data 1, at 744 North 34th Street in Fremont, was developed as a Class-A, LEED Gold office and retail project and was designed with Tableau as its primary tenant, according to HAL Real Estate and the building’s architect Weber Thompson. Public property records and project pages put the building’s office inventory at roughly the same 114,000-square-foot scale that Tableau occupies. The combination of design, transit access and ground-floor retail has helped make Data 1 a long-running home base for the company.
Market context
The renewal lands as leasing activity across the Puget Sound region picked up in the second quarter of 2026, with about 2.4 million square feet leased in Q2 and roughly 4.6 million square feet year-to-date, according to ConnectCRE summarizing Savills data. That acceleration has been led by large technology and AI users chasing high-quality, amenitized offices, a pattern that benefits infill buildings like Data 1. Keeping Tableau in place also helps preserve daytime foot traffic for the small retailers and restaurants clustered around Fremont’s office hubs.
What this signals for Fremont
The decision follows a stretch when Salesforce had explored subleasing pieces of Tableau’s Seattle footprint. In 2023, the Puget Sound Business Journal reported that Salesforce was marketing nearly 120,000 square feet of Tableau space for sublease as part of broader cost-cutting. The renewed commitment at Data 1 suggests at least some of Tableau’s local operations will remain anchored in Fremont even as the broader tech sector continues to rebalance its real-estate needs. Landlords and brokers will be watching closely to see whether this deal nudges other long-term tenants in the neighborhood to follow suit.
