'Google Building Its Own Town Near Silicon Valley HQ, Complete W/ Parks, Restaurants, Housing'

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'Google is building its own town near its Silicon Valley headquarters, complete with parks, restaurants, and affordable housing.' By Avery Hartmans, 5 hrs ago.

Google is building its own town near its Silicon Valley headquarters, complete with parks, restaurants, and affordable housing. Google submitted its proposal this month for a new campus near its headquarters in Mountain View, California. The new campus, called Middlefield Park, would span a 40-acre site and include public amenities like parks and sports field, retail space, restaurants, and affordable housing. Google wants the town-like campus to be walkable and bikeable, with all the amenities and services within a 10-minute walk for residents. Google hopes to build a new, town-like campus near its Silicon Valley headquarters.



- Rendering of Maude park, Middlefield Park.

The company this month unveiled its proposal for Middlefield Park, a revamped 40-acre site in the city of Mountain View, California, where Google's main headquarters is currently based. The plan includes a parks network, retail space, office space, and even a public pool and sports field. The tech giant also plans to add as many as 1,850 residential units, and the company says 20% of those units will be affordable housing. The housing commitment follows a $1 billion pledge Google made last year to housing in the Bay Area, which included repurposing some its land holdings to create 15,000 new homes at varying income levels, including homes intended for lower- and middle-income families.

Google's new campus plans come at a time when the future of offices is uncertain. None of the major tech companies has sent employees back to work in the US amid the ongoing coronavirus outbreak, and Google's itself isn't requiring companies to return to work until July 2021. But Google isn't alone in reaffirming its commitment to physical offices. Last month, Amazon announced that it plans to expand its physical office space in six "tech hubs" across the US, investing $1.4 billion to build out the offices and adding 3,500 jobs.

And Facebook in August signed a deal for a massive new office in the Farley Building in New York City. The office space spans 730,000 square feet and Facebook said at the time it will be used to expand the company's engineering operations in New York. While Google's plans are still in the very early stages, we got our first look at how the company is we got our first look at how the company is imagining its new campus. Take a look: (Slides). *Read the original article on Business Insider.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/google-is-building-its-own-town-near-its-silicon-valley-headquarters-complete-with-parks-restaurants-and-affordable-housing/ss-BB18JW6y

CBBC Report, https://www.cnbc.com/2020/09/02/google-mountain-view-tech-hub-proposal-pictures.html

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1. It worked for...

Milton Hershey.

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6. And Ford and Bethlehem Steel and others.

My mother was a small child when the Depression hit. The steel mill closed but her father worked for the mill and lived in the company town. Paid for the house, not the land, but living there required an employee.

Company took care of them while the mill was closed. They got scrip against future pay and didn't have to pay for their housing until the steel mill started back up.

Then my mother's father died in an accident and that turned to hell. No longer the family of an employee, they had to move.

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2. Cypress Creek

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5. +1 Thanks

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3. I owe my soul to the company store....

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4. Co. store, scrip, housing; company-selected doctors, teachers,

police, ministers, etc.

A young friend's company even takes over employees' student loans, for the interest and control I guess.

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7. Ugh

I can't stand Google....they are better than Facebook. That is about all...