Google Hudson Square (New York City, New York)

 office building, interesting place

Large 4-story industrial and office building. Formerly the southern end of the "High Line" freight railroad line serving the West Side, it was completed in 1935 to a design by Edward A. Dougherty. The St. John's Park Freight Terminal is three city blocks long, with Houston Street passing underneath a portion of the building, and contains 1.3 million square feet of space, giving it Manhattan's largest floor plates. It is clad in beige brick, with rows of loading docks facing West and Washington Streets, and large industrial windows on the upper floors. The building has been owned since the 1960s by Eugene Grant. In the 1980s, most of the warehousing space was converted to offices.

Though the building didn’t have the traditional look and feel of an office building, it had other characteristics that made it appealing. The building’s floors, for one thing, had been constructed to bear the tremendous load of freight trains that used to roll into the property, and this industrial-strength infrastructure drew takers. In the 1990s, Merrill Lynch installed massive mainframe computers in a portion of the space. Bloomberg LP, the financial information, technology and media company, also took space and continues to have a presence in the building. Overall, however, vacancy has grown at the property through the years, to the point where it’s almost fully empty.

The building has since been rebuilt to a new design by Cook + Fox Architects for Google with an interior by Gensler. It is primarily used staffed by members of Google's Global Business Organization which focuses on commercial and revenue-generating products and initiatives across the company.

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