Posted on 04/17/2019 5:47:22 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
Google has leased four office buildings in a vast north San Jose tech campus where it could employ 3,600 workers or more, and has bought a trio of old office buildings in north Mountain View for a quarter-billion dollars, marking eye-popping new expansions of the search giant’s Silicon Valley operations.
The latest moves come as the search giant continues to plan for a huge San Jose complex that would dramatically expand its footprint in the Bay Area’s largest city.
Google paid $250.2 million for the north Mountain View buildings, according to public documents filed on Tuesday with Santa Clara County.
The four north San Jose buildings that Google has leased, which together total 729,000 square feet, could accommodate 3,600 to 4,900 company employees.
In Mountain View, Google paid $139 M for a 92,000-square-foot building at 900 Alta Ave. in one transaction. In a separate Mountain View purchase, Google paid $112 M for a 61,000-square-foot building at 1053 Joaquin Road and a 14,000-square-foot building at 1489 Charleston Road.
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For perspective: * Downtown San Jose Google "Transit Village" - 25,000 people could work there, including 15,000 to 20,000 of Google's employees. * Oct 2018, Google bought two big curving office buildings on North First Street and can accommodate 1,900 to 2,500 Google employees. * New North San Jose site - up to 10,000 Google employees. * Mountain View - 165,000 square feet of old buildings that they will tear down.
Awesome. We can get a 2-fer by shipping 100,000 illegals to the new campus.
there are at least 2 mysteries in all this...
1. Google has purchased (and is continuing to purchase) IMMENSE (and very expensive) industrial and commercial properties...on a huge scale....
it is unknown just what ANY company, even a growing firm, could possibly do with nearly as much Real estate as this!
and
2. IF Google plans to house more computer programming type workers anywhere, putting them in the most expensive part of USA will cost the company a lot of extra money ... when they could have much better lives on lower wages... in hundreds of other, mostly-nicer places to live
NOTE that many tech workers in SillyCon Valley are desperately trying to find jobs ELSEWHERE, and many other large firms located there are adding new facilities in other states for these folks... and to be able to attract more workers when they expand their businesses
so, there’s a double-mystery to all this Google buying up of the California Bay Area... again, we are talking about huge acquisitions, some public some far less visible...in the multi-billions of dollars
The First Street / 237 / 101 triangle where Google is expanding is hugely congested as is the Google campus north of 101 in Mountain View. Traffic is horrendous and obviously going to continue getting much worse.
It’s a good time to own rental property in Downtown San Jose.
It seems to be poor planning since the infrastructure is overwhelmed already.
Perfect destination to dump illegals.
Send a truck around to give them an EBT card on the fifteenth and thirtieth if their biometric ID matches.
Excellent representation of Google.
Hopefully the Tesla hover crafts will be available when the buildings open, just to assure people can get to work in under 2 hours.
Exactly right. North Mountain View feels like a Hyderabad Annex.
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