Is that the old Sun Microsystems campus?
Oh, yes! I didn’t know that (https://www.mercurynews.com/2016/01/13/menlo-park-facebook-buys-its-campus-at-sun-microsystems-site/)
Think of all the solar energy that parking lot could make.
Eventually it’ll only make sense to do that. Take all that blacktop real estate and turn it into energy. Providing shade will be a bonus.
Speaking of shade… This is pretty cool.
Better yet, build something worthwhile on the space. Housing, shops, transit - there are clearly going to be a lot of people going here on a regular basis, why make it so that they have to live far away? The rooftops of all of these places can then host solar panels, without actually wasting the space below them on something as useless as car storage.
Most colleges do have solar over the parking lot for shaded bonus
Exactly my thought.
It would be nice to leave work and not have to drive home in an oven. But I guess the cookies on my dash make up for it.
look at all those cars happily grazing. urbanity is healing 🥰
Should be called Menlo parking.
This one doesn’t even seem that bad. At least here the parking is clustered around a campus where people walk around and interact with each other.
I agree that is not the worst, but jesus, it’s like watching an imperial destroyer sinking in a lake of tar
As an european: oh look it’s a cute cluster of buildings on a tiny island on a tiny lake, and then you zoom and “oh no”.
For a while, Facebook was going to be putting some money into rebuilding the Dumbarton Rail Bridge and having a stop at its campus (pictured) on a route between Redwood City and Hayward, but with remote work and interest rates being what they are now it seems unlikely it’ll ever go anywhere.
1.2 parking spots for each employee?
