Google Continues To Grow Its Seattle-Area Footprint

Google owns more than 400,000 square feet of office space at the new Kirkland Urban mixed use development in the Seattle region. It has further finalized its purchase of the Kirkland Urban East plot. The purchase price was $40 million, King County property records show. The company last year bought about 400,000 square feet of office space across the North and Central buildings at Kirkland Urban, a new development in Kirkland, Wash, just east of Seattle. Google already has a huge separate campus in Kirkland, the Seattle suburb where it first set up shop 16 years ago. Since then, Google has grown to around 2 million square feet of office space spread across several cities in the area, including a Google Cloud campus in Amazon’s backyard of South Lake Union in Seattle that opened last year. The company leased two additional buildings in Kirkland earlier this year. Its Seattle-area real estate portfolio gives the tech giant room for more than 10,000 people.