"Sidewalk Labs has discussed creating an entire micro-city or district that could showcase the company’s ideas for urban planning...."
all great, until Google decides to stop funding /working on the project.
all great, until Google decides to stop funding /working on the project.
But then this is Google's tech, so if they leave not sure how it works.
Why would the city require more of them than any other developer? Any development has a chance of falling before completion.
Google will look after it's own interests, all the time. That's every quarter.
America is littered with these kind of developments. In growing markets with strong demand, worst case, you just turn the retail/office space into lofts and rent them. But in areas where demand isn't high, you get empty strip malls.
And if all google is doing is building apartment/condo buildings in a hot real estate market, this isn't some digital moonshot vision of the future. They are just building apartments in a can't lose environment. Anyone can do that.
I don't even think they are building the apartments from how I read it they are just providing a layer of services on top for the new project.