Seaport Centre is a high-tech business park located in Redwood City, California, United States, and as of 2007 is one of the largest biotechnology research complexes in the San Francisco Bay Area.
The property consists of 623,000 square feet (57,900 m2) of developed building area, and is situated in proximity to the Port of Redwood City.
[2] In 2005, Slough Estates, a United Kingdom-based REIT, purchased the entirety of Seaport Centre to develop it as a biotechnology research center to compete with the existing biotech hubs in Silicon Valley and South San Francisco.
Redwood City Planning Department records confirm that the site was used for salt evaporation since sometime prior to World War II.
These substances included a variety of toxic solvents and other organic chemicals such as acetone, benzene, methyl ethyl ketone and toluene.