Google builds in California a technopolis with cheap apartments and shops

At the beginning of September, 2020 Alphabet company, the owner of Google, submitted the project of a new technopolis which will appear in the city of Mountain View (State of California).

According to the CNBC TV channel, the project received the name Middlefield Park, the Australian company LendLease is engaged in its implementation. The initiative provides construction on the area of 16.2 hectares. Authors of the project intend to build in this territory office (123.5 thousand square meters) and residential buildings (6 apartment houses, 1850 apartments), shops and also to organize the innovation public spaces. It is known that the organizer is going to select about 20% of apartments according to the program of affordable housing.

Google builds in California a technopolis with cheap apartments and shops

After project implementation of a technopolis Google will provide to the population free access on the territory of public spaces, including in park zones and platforms for sports activities.

The director of Google real estate Michael Timoff noted that one of the main ideas of the Middlefield Park project is creation of the area where all services necessary for the modern person and spaces would be within walking distance from the residence and work.

Earlier Google announced that within the next decade it intends to invest $1 billion in construction of new housing in the neighborhood of the gulf San Francisco (State of California). According to plans of the company, at least 15 thousand houses for families with the different level of prosperity should be built, more than 45 thousand employees of Google live in this area. Besides, Google will direct $250 million to creation of investment fund which will allow to build 5 thousand more new houses. Intention of corporation was picked up also by such large technology companies as Facebook and Microsoft.^[1]

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