Cambridge, MA—-Google officially opened its second largest office east of the Mississippi River recently in Cambridge, across the street from Mass. Institute of Technology in Kendall Square, in the heart of greater Boston’s high tech community.
The greatly expanded office complex features 300,000sf of office space for more than 800 employees who work on everything from Google’s web browser and Google Play to search and Google’s operating system, Android. Google Ventures, Google’s venture capital arm, also has an office in the building.
The Cambridge office spans a total of 12 floors across three buildings, with a connector bridging the different buildings together. It features a public rooftop garden as well as a private one for Google employees. There’s a cafe for employees hungry for free food and a tech support area to service Google employees’ needs.
Three of the floors in the new space are gold or platinum LEED certified and each of the connectors are currently undergoing Gold LEED Certification review.
Google first established a presence in Cambridge in 2005 with about 80 employees and has expanded around the Kendall Square neighborhood to two and then three buildings over the years.
Steve Vintner, engineering director for Google’s Cambridge office, said, “Kendall Square’s exploding right now. It really is the center of biotech. So much innovation is going to happen here in the next 20 years.”
