{"id":11523,"date":"2016-03-05T17:34:42","date_gmt":"2016-03-05T22:34:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thatdope.com\/travel\/google-buys-new-york-office-building-for-1-9-billion\/"},"modified":"2016-03-05T17:34:42","modified_gmt":"2016-03-05T22:34:42","slug":"google-buys-new-york-office-building-for-1-9-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thatdope.com\/travel\/google-buys-new-york-office-building-for-1-9-billion\/","title":{"rendered":"Google buys New York office building for $1.9 Billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div readability=\"63.9406392694\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.luxuo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/google-building.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.luxuo.com\/tag\/google\" target=\"_blank\">Google <\/a>said Wednesday that it had purchased an 18-story building in New York to house its more than 2,000-strong workforce in the city.<\/p>\n<p>Google did not announce a purchase price for the building at 111 Eighth Avenue in the Chelsea neighborhood but the New York Post put the cost at 1.77 billion dollars.<\/p>\n<p>The newspaper said the final price, including transfer taxes and assorted other fees, could be 1.9 billion dollars.<br \/><span id=\"more-26968\"\/><br \/>\u201cGoogle New York started in a Starbucks on 86th Street with one person in 2000\u2032\u201d said David Radcliffe, Google\u2019s vice president for real estate and workplace services.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.luxuo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Chelsea-building-111-Eighth-Ave-New-York.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-26972\" title=\"Chelsea building 111 Eighth Ave New York\" src=\"https:\/\/thatdope.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Chelsea-building-111-Eighth-Ave-New-York-468x311.jpg\" alt=\"Chelsea building 111 Eighth Ave New York\" width=\"468\" height=\"311\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow we have more than 2,000 Googlers working on a variety of projects in both sales and engineering \u2014 and we\u2019re hiring across the board,\u201d Radcliffe said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday, we\u2019re pleased to announce that we\u2019ve closed a deal with the partnership of Taconic Investment Partners, Jamestown Properties and the New York State Common Retirement Fund to purchase 111 Eighth Avenue,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe believe that this is a great real estate investment in a thriving neighborhood and a fantastic city,\u201d he said<\/p>\n<p>The Art Deco building has \u201cnumerous back-up generators, lots of electrical power, antennas, fiber optics and high-tech facilities available to tenants.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Source: Relaxnews<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thatdope.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/111-8th-Avenue-google.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-26978\" title=\"111 8th Avenue google\" src=\"https:\/\/thatdope.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/111-8th-Avenue-google.jpg\" alt=\"111 8th Avenue google\" width=\"464\" height=\"465\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.luxuo.com\/luxury-locations\/google-111-eighth-avenue-chelsea-new-york-office-building.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google said Wednesday that it had purchased an 18-story building in New York to house its more than 2,000-strong workforce in the city. Google did not announce a purchase price for the building at 111 Eighth Avenue in the Chelsea neighborhood but the New York Post put the cost at 1.77 billion dollars. The newspaper said the final price, including transfer taxes and assorted other fees, could be 1.9 billion dollars.\u201cGoogle New York started in a Starbucks on 86th Street [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11524,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[176,185],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Google buys New York office building for $1.9 Billion<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Google said Wednesday that it had purchased an 18-story building in New York to house its more than 2,000-strong workforce in the city. 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