Google said on Monday it would expand its presence in New York City with a $1 billion campus in the West Village, allowing the company to double the size of its 7,000-employee work force over the next decade. In March, it spent $2.4 billion to buy the Chelsea Market building, where it already had offices. At the time, a Google spokeswoman said the company also planned to add 320,000 square feet of space in a redevelopment of Pier 57 on the Hudson River. “New York City continues to be a great source of diverse, world-class talent,” Ruth Porat, Google’s chief financial officer, said in a statement on Monday. “That’s what brought Google to the city in 2000, and that’s what keeps us here.”

Source: New York Times December 17, 2018 12:10 UTC