CNN BUSINESS | Google expands in New York with $2.1 billion office purchase

New York (CNN Business) – Google is dramatically expanding its office presence in New York City with a $2.1 billion purchase on Manhattan’s West Side. 
 
The move comes even as the company embracing a hybrid work model because of the pandemic. 
 
Google said Tuesday that the new office will be an “anchor” of its sprawling city campus that houses much of its 12,000-strong regional workforce. It’s scheduled to open in mid-2023. 
 
The Wall Street Journal, which first reported the news, wrote that the deal is the most expensive sale of a single US office building since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, and ranks as one of the priciest ever in US history.  —read more—