Two things can be bad at once: both "Google choosing to build a company town," and "Google starting to build a company town, getting partway in, then abandoning

Two things can be bad at once: both "Google choosing to build a company town," and "Google starting to build a company town, getting partway in, then abandoning the project." It's unclear to me from the article just how far this got, but if it already reached the point of tearing down existing buildings, let alone starting to build new ones, and then stopped, that's definitely bad. Even if it didn't get to that point, it may very well have had a negative effect on the area simply due to Google's (money's) outsized influence: anyone else who might have chosen to do something with the area would've turned away, for instance, and it might have affected property values as well.