Google’s new Hudson River campus opens with rooftop park, views of NYC

Google unveiled its new Hudson River campus at Pier 57 in Chelsea, which encompasses a rooftop park.
Courtesy of Google

Google has formally unveiled its new campus for New York Metropolis staff, a sprawling facility atop a pier that juts into the Hudson River with facilities that embody a two-acre rooftop park with views of Decrease Manhattan and Little Island.

The 630,000-square-foot Hudson River campus on Pier 57 contains three buildings of workplace house for some 450 staff simply above the West Aspect Freeway close to fifteenth Avenue in Chelsea.

The 2-acre park house is open to most of the people. There’s additionally a meals corridor and an space for outside screening of movies in the course of the Tribeca Movie Competition.

The brand new campus formally opened this week at a ceremony attended by Google chief monetary officer Ruth Porat, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, and Mayor Eric Adams.

Google is the important thing tenant on the pier, which value greater than $500 million to revive, in response to New York Enterprise Journal.

“I’m enthusiastic about this enterprise and others we're going to do,” mentioned Adams.

The disclosing comes after a restoration of the pier that value greater than $500 million.

Courtesy of Google

The amenities are anticipated to carry some 450 workplace staff.

Courtesy of Google

Adams and different public officers have urged corporations to carry their staff again into the workplace as a approach to jumpstart the native economic system, which has struggled because the onset of the coronavirus pandemic.

“So get some new work garments, since you might need placed on a few COVID kilos — I’m responsible too — and get again to work. Come again right here,” mentioned Hochul.

Google, which employs 12,000 staff within the metropolis, is seeking to develop its footprint within the Large Apple.

In September, the corporate snapped up a 1.3 million-square-foot waterfront constructing in Manhattan’s Hudson Sq. for $2.1 billion — which on the time was probably the most ever paid for an workplace constructing.

Google, which employs 12,000 staff in New York Metropolis, is seeking to develop its footprint within the Large Apple.

Courtesy of Google

Google hopes the brand new workplaces will make it extra engaging for staff to return to the workplace.

Courtesy of Google

Google additionally owns two smaller buildings in Chelsea: 111 Eighth Ave. and the Milk Constructing at 450 W. fifteenth St.

Earlier this month, Google requested its staff to return to the workplace for a minimum of three days per week as a part of its new hybrid mannequin.

The brand new work schedule, which Google argued “balances the very best of being collectively in individual and being wherever,” will apply to staff in New York Metropolis, the San Francisco Bay Space and several other different US cities.