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Google to Invest More Than $1 Billion to Expand NYC Campus
Google will invest more than $1 billion to expand its New York City presence, the search giant said in a blog post Monday.
The Alphabet Inc. division said it had reached lease agreements at 315 and 345 Hudson St. and signed a letter of intent at 550 Washington St. to make up the new 1.7 million-square-foot (158,000-square-meter) campus, to be called Google Hudson Square.
Google aims to move into the new Hudson buildings by 2020 and the Washington Street location by 2022, Alphabet Chief Financial Officer Ruth Porat said in the blog post. The move could allow the company to more than double the current 7,000 people it employs in the city over the next decade.
Also at Ars Technica and CNBC.
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(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Tuesday December 18 2018, @04:59PM
That puts it in the Hudson Yards project [wikipedia.org], which is a great location. It's at the top of the High Line [thehighline.org], NYC's new elevated park, so a person living downtown could walk to work through one of the city's best new features. It's next to the West Side Highway and Hudson River Park bike path, also, so it's easy for drivers and cyclists to get to. The 7 train has a stop there, and Penn Station is not too far away, so getting there via the MTA and light rail is possible.
On the downside, it's also close to the Holland Tunnel, which means more Bridge & Tunnel people (aka "from Jersey").
Washington DC delenda est.