Microsoft has submitted plans to the city of Mountain View, California to modernize and enlarge the Microsoft Technology Center campus in Mountain View by about 25%. Microsoft, which currently occupies about 515,700 square feet of leased space in the five buildings on the 32-acre campus, first moved into the space in 1981 when it was developed. The company currently houses roughly 2,000 employees at the Mountain View Silicon Valley Campus, but by the end of expansion could add another 3,000 employees to the complex.
"A little more than 15 years ago, we opened our Silicon Valley Campus in Mountain View, bringing together the innovation and energy of engineers from WebTV, Hotmail and PowerPoint, to name a few," Qi Lu, an executive vice president with Washington state-based Microsoft, said in an open letter to employees. "We submitted a proposal to the City of Mountain View to acquire our Mountain View Silicon Valley Campus and build a state of the art facility to create an exceptional place to work."
"The employees are working on initiatives including Xbox, Outlook.com, Skype and Yammer," added Emily Horn, a Microsoft spokeswoman. Right now, Skype and Yammer have their own headquarters in Palo Alto and San Francisco respectively; the expansion could allow these employees to move to the expanded Mountain View campus.
"Today's announcement marks the very beginning of a longer-term process," Lu said. "There is no immediate impact to teams in the Bay Area, and we anticipate that construction will take at least three years to complete."
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