Google buys Mountain View building next to Googleplex headquarters
Tech titan Google grabs building as Silicon Valley expansion continues
Google has bought a big Mountain View office building across the street from the search giant’s iconic Googleplex headquarters, fresh evidence of the company’s ongoing expansion in Silicon Valley.
The Alphabet unit purchased the building at 1665 Charleston Road in Mountain View, documents filed on Dec. 15 with the Santa Clara County Recorder’s Office show. Google paid $73.5 million for the twostory building with 60,000 square feet that sits on 4.3 acres.
Mountain View-based Google obtained the property in an all-cash deal, the public documents show.
The just-bought property is next to an office buildingon Charleston Road that Google leases from an affiliate of Mozart Development.
Google has bought or leased a number of buildings in Mountain View and is developing two huge new campuses in the vicinity of
the company’s headquarters, including the Charleston East campus about a block away and the company’s Bay View campus on a section of the vast NASA Ames Research Center.
Both of these complexes are characterized by canopy-like roofs that resemble dragon scales.
In 2018, in a jaw-dropping transaction, Google paid $1 billion for a huge Mountain View office complex called Shoreline Technology Park.
Nearby in northern Mountain View, Google has proposed the development of a village that would feature 7,000 residences, 3.1 million square feet of offices, along with restaurants and shops. It is set to the be the second largest residential development in Bay Area history.
Google also has bought dozens of properties in northern Sunnyvale and also has acquired several dozen properties in San Jose.
The company’s Bay Area expansion efforts include a mixed-use neighborhood in downtown San Jose where the search giant could employ up to 20,000 tech workers in a transit village of office buildings, homes, hotel facilities, shops, restaurants, cultural hubs and entertainment centers.
Plus, Google is taking steps to create multiple employment hubs in north San Jose through a combination of property purchases and office building leases.