John “Skip” Igoe Jr., a prominent commercial real estate developer in Silicon Valley, has died at the age of 83. Igoe played a significant role in shaping the region’s office landscape, most notably by helping to create Google’s Bay View Campus.
Igoe’s career in real estate development spanned more than sixty years. He led major projects for companies such as Google and PeopleSoft while working with Sares Regis Group, which is recognized as one of the largest commercial real estate developers in the Bay Area.
Born in Philadelphia in 1941, Igoe was active in sports during high school and later attended Villanova University, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering in 1963. After college, he served five years in the U.S. Air Force, participating both in a spy aircraft program and housing projects based in California. He achieved the rank of captain before pursuing further education at Stanford University for graduate studies in civil engineering and at Drexel University for an MBA.
In his professional life, Igoe oversaw construction and design for several large-scale projects. These included PeopleSoft’s 1-million-square-foot campus in Pleasanton—later acquired by Oracle—and award-winning developments like the Taube Koret Campus for Jewish Life in Palo Alto. He also managed corporate campuses outside Northern California, such as Symantec’s facility in Culver City.
At Google, Igoe served as director of design and construction. In this capacity, he managed the expansion of Google’s real estate portfolio across more than 23 million square feet of office space. His work included supervising the development of both Mountain View’s Bay View Campus and a mass timber office building located in Sunnyvale.
Igoe is survived by his wife Peggy—whom he married nearly six decades ago—along with their five children and thirteen grandchildren.
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