LinkedIn pays Mountain View $1.6M for expansion timeline – San José Spotlight

A man walks along a path at LinkedIn’s headquarters in Mountain View. Photo by Zoe Morgan. The Mountain View City Council unanimously signed off on an agreement last week to give LinkedIn an extra five years to redevelop its office headquarters on the eastern edge of the city. LinkedIn now has until February 2034 to begin constructing a pair of six-story office buildings and a parking structure at its Mountain View campus. As part of the deal, LinkedIn will pay the city an additional $1.6 million. However, in a split 5-2 vote, the City Council diverged on how to spend the money. The council majority wanted the entire lump sum to go into the city’s affordable housing fund instead of supporting a staff recommendation to allocate $1.1 million for parkland acquisition and $500,000 for affordable housing. Council members Chris Clark and John McAlister cast the dissenting votes at the Oct. 13 meeting. “My preference would be to leave it flexible so that we can put it toward parkland acquisition if it makes sense, some portion of it, or affordable housing, some portion of it – or something else,” Clark said. LinkedIn’s redevelopment plans For the better part of a decade, LinkedIn has been wanting
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