Much of the intelligence in the “ space race ” for Silicon Valley dominance has concentrate on the Big Three : Google , Apple , and Facebook have all been competing to progress Imperial Star Destroyer - size new HQs . But now we learn that LinkedIn also has big plans to get its campus . And a failed country - grab by Google almost stop it .
Google was planning on get 2.2 million solid feet of development rightfield for its Mountain View campus , which would have forestall its neighbor LinkedIn from expand at all . But atlast night ’s city council get together , it turns out that Google only scram rights for 515,000 straight foundation of development , falling room short of its project design . DENIED .
Now get this : LinkedIn was awarded 1.4 million square infantry of development rights at the same meeting . sexual conquest one for the short guy .
The Silicon Valley Business Journal ’s Nate Donato - Weinstein was live - tweeting the meeting and broke the news , in accession to provide someexcellent psychoanalysis :
BREAKING : Mountain View gives Google just one building – most everything to LinkedIN
— The SVBJ CRE Beat ( @SVBizCRE)May 6 , 2015
consort to theNew York Times , it sounds like LinkedIn has the better plan :
“ We are doing this without asking for any division in meridian or density , with a project that can be ramp up now with existing technology and union labor , ” Jim Morgensen [ LinkedIn ’s vice president of global work services ] told the council . It was a not - so - veiled reference to Google ’s architectural plan , which required height exceptions and engineering technology that have not yet been developed .
LinkedIn also made the savvy move of partnering with an affordable housing developer , which aims to construct new housing task nearby . Google also had design to develop living accommodations and is still likely play a persona in whatever housing plan emerges , as it owns most of the land in North Bayshore .
Not only does Google have to retool its ace challenging campus plans plan by BIG and Thomas Heatherwick , now they have to watch LinkedIn ’s expansion over the fence .
[ Silicon Valley Business Journal , NYT , SocketSitevia @JohnKingSFChron ]
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