After Amazon and Apple, now Google has decided to stretch its wings outside Silicon Valley. The company has announced more than $1 billion investment as part of a broader plan to establish a new campus in New York.
The over 1.7 million square-foot campus, Google Hudson Square, will serve as the key hub for Google’s New York-based Global Business Organization.
Apple recently revealed plans to establish new offices across the United States, gradually adding hundreds of jobs in New York. Amazon.com, on the other hand, is also working to split a new secondary HQ between New York City and a Washington D.C. suburb.
“New York City continues to be a great source of diverse, world-class talent—that’s what brought Google to the city in 2000 and that’s what keeps us here,” Ruth Porat, SVP and CFO of Google and Alphabet, said in a blog post.
“We hope to start moving into the two Hudson Street buildings by 2020, followed by 550 Washington Street in 2022 once the building is complete,” she added.
With this investment, Google plans to more than double the number of Googlers in New York over the next 10 years. It’s currently home to more than 7,000 employees.






