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The deal involves 2.5 million square feet of office space. In comparison, the Empire State Building has 2.2 million square feet. So this is a pretty big deal. (
by kens 10y ago
The deal involves 2.5 million square feet of office space. In comparison, the Empire State Building has 2.2 million square feet. So this is a pretty big deal. (I'm trying to imagine what Mountain View would look like with the Empire State Building beside 101.)
- epc 10y agoAnd 111 Eighth Avenue, Google’s NYC headquarters, is 2.9 MM square feet (I think Google only occupies about a third of the building so far).
- tomlu 10y agoI work there. They've expanded a lot. If my reckoning is right Google occupies 8/15 floors completely, and occupy fractions of a couple more floors.
- ocdtrekkie 10y agoIs the rest of it empty or do they rent it?
- droidist2 10y agoTheir tenants include Nike, Deutsch Inc, Bank of New York and Barnes & Noble. They also donated space for Cornell NYC Tech to hold classes there. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/111_Eighth_Avenue#Google https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/111_Eighth_Avenue#Google
- nunez 10y agoAs of last year (when I worked there), 8 was a pass-through floor mostly occupied by ISPs. 15/9/10 should be done by now, though.
- rconti 10y agoOh man. One of my favorite memories was the look on the Internap security guy's face when we parked a 19ft box truck at their loading dock on the 10th floor of the Port Authority building. "the truck is WHERE?"
- johansch 10y agoI guess it's parking space that's the reason for why SV office spaces don't go very high vertically?
- jonknee 10y agoZoning. Going higher doesn't change your parking needs. http://www.forbes.com/sites/timothylee/2011/09/19/zoning-laws-are-strangling-silicon-valley/ http://www.forbes.com/sites/timothylee/2011/09/19/zoning-law...
- spicyj 10y agoGoing higher would generally mean you need more parking for the amount of land the building takes up.
- jonknee 10y agoSure, but you're building on a dramatically smaller piece of land so your total overall parking requirement doesn't change. 4 stories of 100,000sqft vs 40 stories of 10,000sqft hold the same number of workers, but the tower only uses 1/10th of the footprint. The fun part is when you start building a lot of these towers very close to each other and then all of a sudden your parking needs plummet because transit is way more effective. It's not going to happen in the Valley though, they're stuck with gross office parks.
- anxrn 10y agoCoincidentally, LinkedIn's NY offices are _in_ the Empire State Building. http://www.businessinsider.com/take-a-tour-through-linkedins-offices-high-up-in-the-empire-state-building-2012-2 http://www.businessinsider.com/take-a-tour-through-linkedins...