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Comment by brycelarkin | Hacker News Reader

I heard pre-pandemic, Google was going to purchase that space. Guess that deal fell through with remote work.

Pre-COVID19 pandemic, when the plans to develop and open part of the Westside Pavillion as a Google office was shared with employees, many of the engineers based out of the Los Angeles (Venice) office declared their preference to quit and find another job elsewhere. This was because Google was planning to close the crowded Venice Office (Binoculars Building) and reassign those employees to the new Westside Pavillion office.

Which is weird because it is a lot easier to get to BH from the Valley compared to Venice.

And, if you are well to do google employee why live in a shack in Venice when you could have a large house in the Valley?

They are rich enough to live in Manhattan Beach and Hermosa.

Many Googlers live on the LA Westside (Santa Monica, Venice, West LA, Culver City, Playa Vista), often close enough to bike to work.

Or as the other poster said, the South Bay Beach Cities. However the beach cities are almost 1hr driving to/from the Venice Office. It's often more than 1hr to/from the beach cities to the Westside Pavillion.

There are a myriad of reasons why living in a LA beach city is preferable to the SFV. The beach is there. The weather is better. You’re closer to LAX.

BTW, Google also modified an existing ex-mall in northern CA, Mayfield Mall for the Google X offices (https://x.company/blog/posts/from-mall-to-moonshot-factory:-...

I've worked with a fair number of people who walked in, thought it seemed familiar, and then realized they had gone there as kids.

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