West side pavilion is going to supersede the Venice/Sahara Monica R&D office I’ve heard, not sure if YouTube would, though it isn’t that far from their Venice beach office already.
I'm super glad to hear that, its crazy to have a deadmall like that in LA.
It wasn’t dead when I was living there in 2016. It failed really quickly, actually.
My understanding is that YouTube is staying in the newer offices in Playa Vista and it's the Venice offices that are moving over to Westside Pavilion. This is still a couple years away.