Bigger Redmond Supports Boomtime Microsoft
Microsoft announced a major development project yesterday to spend $1 billion enlarging its Redmond headquarters over the next three years. The work will expand the site by one-third, adding fourteen buildings and 3.1 million sq ft of space.
The ambitious plan highlights optimistic employment prospects at the campus, with room being made for 12,000 extra people onsite. The move has set off a scramble by city officials to improve transport infrastructure on the area.
Seattle PI comments: “Microsoft’s growth, to be accomplished by constructing buildings and buying existing ones, significantly accelerates the campus redevelopment plan approved by the city of Redmond last year.”
Curiously, all this will be accomplished in less time than it has taken to develop Windows Vista. Maybe the builders should be taken on to advise the software geeks.
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By SYNTAGMA » Blog Archive » Around Syntagma Media Today on February 10th, 2006 at 3:47 pm
One has to wonder why they have laid off so many people yet add this much space. This doesn’t sound like regular corporate growth. It sounds more like a whole new division or sub-company, or maybe a new aquisition. I doubt they plan on hiring 12,000 people to their current departments in the next 5 years. I think something bigger is going on.
By veridicus on February 12th, 2006 at 8:28 pm
You may well be right, Veridicus.
By John on February 13th, 2006 at 9:21 am