11/13: Microsoft Announces Redmond Campus Expansion
Posted by Patrick
From the press release:
I first mentioned this about a week ago as plans for the expansion revealed a bar. Todd Bishop, who brought that information to light, asked about it at the press conference.
The new international headquarters for Microsoft Research, Building 99, opened today. It is the first of seven new buildings on Microsoft Corp.’s West Campus. The company’s Entertainment and Devices Division will occupy four of the seven new buildings, part of the 1.4 million square feet of West Campus currently under construction. Planned for completion in April 2009, West Campus will feature a central campus commons, offering employees convenient amenities such as a post office, a mini-spa, a bookstore and 12 food venues. ...
Microsoft also announced that it has doubled its space investments to expand its Redmond campus beyond what the company announced in early 2006. At that time, Microsoft unveiled a plan to execute roughly half of its 15- to 20-year development with the City of Redmond by 2009.
Updates to the plan now include an additional 21 leased sites in Bellevue, Wash.; Issaquah, Wash.; Redmond; and Seattle, which will provide a combined total of 5.5 million square feet and the capacity to house approximately 19,000 people based on the current conceptual layout. Microsoft’s original plan called for seven new buildings, seven building acquisitions and two new leases to provide a combined total of 3.1 million square feet.
Microsoft also announced that site planning is currently under way for two new buildings on the former Safeco Corp. headquarters site it acquired in 2006. The company will also begin site planning for the addition of new buildings on the land it acquired from Nintendo of America Inc. earlier this year. Both of these projects are outside the three-year expansion Microsoft began in February 2006. Construction start and end dates for both sites have not yet been set.
Microsoft also announced that it has doubled its space investments to expand its Redmond campus beyond what the company announced in early 2006. At that time, Microsoft unveiled a plan to execute roughly half of its 15- to 20-year development with the City of Redmond by 2009.
Updates to the plan now include an additional 21 leased sites in Bellevue, Wash.; Issaquah, Wash.; Redmond; and Seattle, which will provide a combined total of 5.5 million square feet and the capacity to house approximately 19,000 people based on the current conceptual layout. Microsoft’s original plan called for seven new buildings, seven building acquisitions and two new leases to provide a combined total of 3.1 million square feet.
Microsoft also announced that site planning is currently under way for two new buildings on the former Safeco Corp. headquarters site it acquired in 2006. The company will also begin site planning for the addition of new buildings on the land it acquired from Nintendo of America Inc. earlier this year. Both of these projects are outside the three-year expansion Microsoft began in February 2006. Construction start and end dates for both sites have not yet been set.
I first mentioned this about a week ago as plans for the expansion revealed a bar. Todd Bishop, who brought that information to light, asked about it at the press conference.
