SUNNYVALE — A multi-tenant campus has been approved for Sunnyvale’s Peery Park business district.

The Pathline Park project, which was reviewed by the city council June 6, would see the demolition of 28 office and industrial buildings constructed from 1970 to 1975. In their place would be nine three-story and three four-story office buildings totaling 1,471,400 square feet as well as a two-story and two one-story amenity buildings. The project would also boast one four-level parking structure and three six-level parking structures.

The project spans a total area of 50.48 acres and is bounded by Maude, Benicia , Almanor, Palomar, North Mary, Del Ray, North Pastoria avenues and Maude Court. The Sunnyvale Golf Course borders the project to the north.

The project is being developed by the Irvine Company, which intends to build it in five phases.

According to company representative Carlene Matchniff, the project will bring approximately 650 construction jobs to the area and 1,200 to 1,800 permanent jobs.

Several members of the city council were happy with the design of the project, including the decision to use California Coast Redwood trees to line public streets and to protect the majority of the trees on the site.

Irvine representatives told the council that while much of the project’s tenancy is still up in the air, the company has been in “serious negotiations” with software and programming company Synopsys.

Councilman Jim Griffith expressed concern that having a large corporate tenant rather than incubator space for start-ups would represent “commercial gentrification of the area.”

“It’s difficult at this time to say what kind of space will lease up and how it will be subdivided,” Matchniff said in response.

The planning commission approved the project April 10, but the council wanted to review the project to discuss some of the design features, among them the applicant’s desire to have elevators at the front of the parking structures rather than the back. Matchniff said that having elevators in the front nearer to the sidewalks would be safer at night for employees. The council agreed.

The council approved the project 6-1, with Goldman dissenting. Mayor Glenn Hendricks praised the project as appropriate for the Peery Park business district.