Google leases historic HP building
Google’s moving in again – this time to one of Silicon Valley’s premier and historic addresses, the site of Hewlett-Packard’s first company-owned building. In a real-estate spree that shows no sign of stopping, upstart Google has leased 395 Page Mill Road in Palo Alto.
The office building, which served as Agilent Technologies’ headquarters for six years, was the site of HP’s original 10,000-square-foot campus, built two years after founders Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard left the famous garage. “Bill and Dave designed it as an open system – without interior walls – so the space could be flexible,” according to Agilent’s Web site. Built in 1942, the campus was later torn down to make way for headquarters for HP spinoff Agilent. Now the giant search engine company will plant its flag on the historic 11-acre site.
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