Google has big plans for a new campus in Mountain View, California that will effectively create a city within a city. More succinctly, the search giant’s proposal will effectively turn 40 acres of its land into a 'mixed-use neighborhood’. That’s according to Google real estate director Michael Tymoff. The company has even shared some concept imagery for its vision, included below.
Building a new campus is nothing new for Google, in Mountain View and beyond
Now, Google has been building out massive campuses and changing its main headquarters campus for years. That includes proposals from last year for a 584,000 square foot property in L.A. And it’s made drastic changes in Mountain View over the years too. But this latest project is a bit more ambitious still.
Google has partnered with Australia-based real estate developer LendLease for this project. And the company has dubbed the project the Middlefield Park Master Plan. And, as its name implies, the new space will effectively seek to serve as many needs and services as possible within walking distance of „work.” But it’s also intended to help address a housing crunch in the area.
That means that it will house as much as 1.33 million square feet of office space and up to 1,850 housing units. As much as 20-percent of the residential space will be dedicated to affordable housing. That’s in addition to 30,000 square feet of retail use space and 20,000 square feet of civic and event space. There will be 12 acres of open space, meant for other uses.
The open space will include multiple parks, a recreation center that doubles to serve as a soccer field, and an aquatic center. Most of the open space will be fully available for the general public.
Wasn’t Google planning on keeping workers at home still?
Plans to open up what equates to a 40-acre town within Mountain View also appear to fly in direct contradiction to earlier announced plans for 2020. Namely, the company’s plans to keep most employees working remotely at least until 2021 due to the ongoing pandemic. But that’s no big surprise either. The plans here will likely need to be finalized with Mountain View prior to construction and will likely take quite some time to finish, given the scale.
So this campus appears to be aimed at giving workers and the community something new. At least once life does return to an approximation of normal.

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