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Looks good on the City of Mountain View. All those years of fighting against Google's expansion, awarding building rights to LinkedIn instead of Google and dec
by minwcnt5 10y ago
Looks good on the City of Mountain View. All those years of fighting against Google's expansion, awarding building rights to LinkedIn instead of Google and decrying how the city was becoming a "one company town". Looks like that's what they're getting anyway, only now Google gets the sweetheart (relatively speaking) deal that LinkedIn had, while the city loses the benefits of the more progressive Google plan that they rejected. At least they saved a few burrowing owls, though - worth it?
- hkmurakami 10y agoI'm surprised that said deal was untransferrable, or that the city didn't have some kind of right of refusal...
- inlined 10y agoHow would the city have rights to bar a company from selling its real estate?
- hkmurakami 10y agoLiterally anything is possible in a contract. Recall that for instance, the Canadian government blocked a RIM sale to China. It's not unreasonable for MV to have a clause in the contract that the winner of the land development bid must agree to transfer restrictions XYZ.
- zatkin 10y agoIt's funny how you say "one company town". There are a lot of those in the Bay Area. - Cupertino = Apple - Mountain View = Google - Milpitas/San Jose = Cisco
- rsanek 10y agoCould also add Palantir = Palo Alto
- telotortium 10y agoExcept for, you know, Stanford and SRI.
- api_or_ipa 10y ago- Redwood City = Box
- pm24601 10y ago"1 company town"? Hah not hardly! Lets see: 1. Google 2. Intuit 3. Pure Storage 4. Symantec 5. Quixey (https://www.quixey.com/ https://www.quixey.com/) 6. Matterport + a bunch of startups that I have forgotten about. There is a ways to go before Mountain View is a 1 company town.
- thearn4 10y agoDon't forget NASA Ames/Moffett Field. Not a company of course, but a staple of the bay area nevertheless.
- pgodzin 10y agohttp://www.space.com/27741-google-leases-nasa-moffett-field.html http://www.space.com/27741-google-leases-nasa-moffett-field....
- 1_800_UNICORN 10y agoOne of these things is not like the others.
- sowbug 10y agoYou forgot Poland.
- praptak 10y agoPoland Embassador for HN here (self appointed). While we acknowledge that multiple members of our glorious nation work in that area, we do not consider this a sufficient reason to consolidate Mountain View with the rest of our territories.