{"id":40249,"date":"2021-09-21T15:31:19","date_gmt":"2021-09-21T22:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=40249"},"modified":"2021-09-21T16:31:45","modified_gmt":"2021-09-21T23:31:45","slug":"2b-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=40249","title":{"rendered":"$2B BUILDING"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">Google announced on Tuesday that it intends to purchase for $2.1 billion early next year a Manhattan property it has been leasing.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The 1.3 million-square-foot former freight terminal called St. John\u2019s Terminal adds to the significant collection of real estate that the search and advertising giant has in New York.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The company already owns two buildings next door, bringing the combined campus to 1.7 million square feet.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The planned acquisition suggests that Google\u2019s embrace of remote work in response to the coronavirus pandemic may not be a long-term strategy.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;New York&#8217;s energy, creativity and world-class talent are what keep us rooted here and why we&#8217;re deepening our commitment with plans to purchase St. John&#8217;s Terminal,&#8221; Alphabet and Google Chief Financial Officer Ruth Porat said in a press release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google announced on Tuesday that it&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40249"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40250,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40249\/revisions\/40250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}