Google has acquired a 22,000-square-foot office building at 1808 Shoreline Boulevard in Mountain View for $32.8 million, according to the Silicon Valley Business Journal. The property was sold by Morris Associates XI, which is part of the Jeffrey A. Morris Group.
In 2023, the Jeffrey A. Morris Group began planning an expansion of the site into a larger corporate complex that would have increased the building from one story to six and added over 80,000 square feet of office space. The plan received approval from the City of Mountain View but was never implemented.
The purchase comes as Google continues to adjust its real estate portfolio. In the same week as this acquisition, Planetary Ventures—a partnership between Google and the California Air National Guard—sold another property at 494 South Bernardo Avenue in Sunnyvale to 494 Bernardo LP, affiliated with The Mozart Development Company based in Palo Alto.
The newly purchased building is located near an area where Google previously planned major development under its North Bayshore plan, including thousands of residential units and commercial condominiums approved in 2023. However, Google later pulled back from these projects amid a broader reduction in its real estate development activities. Earlier this year, Google put up for sale 40 acres in Mountain View that had been slated for mixed-use development featuring homes, affordable housing units, retail space and offices under the Middlefield Park project.
Google’s recent purchase reflects a trend among large technology companies securing ownership of buildings they had previously leased for office use. Nvidia expanded its office holdings with an $83.2 million acquisition on San Tomas Expressway in Santa Clara as part of a four-building deal and also bought three other nearby buildings earlier this year for $254 million. Apple similarly purchased several properties for more than $166.9 million in Cupertino and completed another major transaction for Kilroy Realty’s Mathilda Campus in Sunnyvale valued at $365 million.
