Chelsea Market is actually 19 different buildings on the same block that have merged together over time. The floor layout is truly crazy. Some floors are staggered by a full half height at the interface between buildings, there are exterior courtyards on the inside of the block that are roofed over, and buildings are of differing height. You can see it all on Google Maps; contrast with 111 8th Ave next door (where I sit) that is all one proper building. https://www.google.com/maps/@40.7402908,-74.0061411,325a,35y...
And yeah, we already have a huge amount of office space in Chelsea Market, up to six floors now, and presumably buying the entire block made sense vs continuing to rent.
Hopefully the ground floor marketspace itself won't be affected. I can't imagine we'd kick all that out, though. It wouldn't be a good look. Chelsea Market is an iconic tourist destination.
That hodgepodge mess of buildings really appeals to my inner Lego-building child.
Contrast with 111 8th Ave, which was built contemporaneously with the Empire State Building (and in the same aesthetic). It uses reinforced concrete and steel I-beam construction throughout. The brick you see from the outside is just an aesthetic facade; this is a solid building.
Oh, and there's two skybridges -- one that goes nowhere, and one that goes across 10th Ave to our space in that building.
This sounds like a pretty awesome, yet harsh, way to handle internal performance reviews...
Top performers get to walk over to 10th ave for cake and coffee. Low performers get to walk the plank, taking a skybridge to "nowhere", and are never heard from again.
... Need to get a subordinate to shape up? Take her up by the skybridge to nowhere and then tell her how important your TPS reports are. She'll get the hint.
We got an excellent post-recession deal on 111 8th Ave. Chelsea Market looks to be at booming economy rates, hence paying about the same amount of money for much less.
The building was originally not built as an office space, which is painfully obvious when you consider that it had more freight and truck elevators than people elevators.
I couldnt have put it better - I got the exact same feeling from his comment. I was thinking "well that just sounds AWESOME"
complexity should be no problem for Google engineers
We do go out at night to The Tippler, a bar beneath the market, though. That definitely feels like an extension of Google space on weeknights.
Doing something software/tech related?
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I wonder if "being dislocated by" counts as "related".
But I haven't been there in 5 years, so I can't say that with certainty, things may have changed.
They did just have the one cafeteria when I was there, but I wouldn't talk it down. Waterloo isn't that large of an office, relatively speaking.
I wouldn't be surprised that the NYC location is slaying Kitchener/Waterloo. I'd hope so! I think the last time I was up that way was pre-university drinking with friends in Guelph and at the Sleeman Brewery. It's a nice place, and becoming more of a research and development hub, but still has a way to go.
It's impressive to get fed 3 meals a daily, yes. Many things are impressive. But you'd be amazed how entitled the average Googler gets after a few months.
It is still a job after all.
"work hard and study, and this will be the food you can eat every day" as a motivational trope
Where do you work now?
Who is us?
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Want to highlight this :) Although, they're more than welcome to (quickly) renovate it and make the corridor wider...
It really isn't. It's a tourist trap, especially with the completion of the High Line. The food isn't good and it's overpriced to take advantage of the tourists.
> As long as this transaction does not ruin the ecosystem of CM then New Yorkers are OK with this transaction.
Like new yorkers' opinions matters in manhattan. The only thing that matters in manhattan are billionaires - whether they be from california, israel, russia, china or anywhere else.
I don't think anyone really believes Chelsea Market is a culinary wonder, or that it's catering to the True(tm) New Yorker. It's pretty, it's in a fairly nice area, there's no entry fee, and it's easy to have fun there if you take it for what it is.