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Facebook Inc. buys specially designed headquarters in Seattle Recreational Equipment Inc.whose business has been affected by the coronavirus pandemic.
Economic pressure of COVID-19 forced Street vendor and other companies to overhaul their operations, with many opting to cash out expensive office buildings while employees work remotely or from small sites.
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Companies announced the deal on Monday.
Facebook pays $ 367.6 million for a 400,000-square-foot campus in Bellevue, Washington. The complex, which REI originally planned to occupy for the summer, includes open staircases, bridges, a courtyard with plants, and skylights for sun and air entry. according to The Wall Street Journal…
REI has also sold undeveloped land to developers. Wright Runstad & Co. and Shorenstein Properties totaling $ 390 million.
Through the sale, the company expects to raise funds for other parts of its business. This move demonstrates one of the ways the pandemic has impacted where and how companies deploy their workforce, and which ones do it at all.
Big tech companies like Facebook, Googleand Amazon were among the last to open their offices, although Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg previously reported by The Wall Street Journal he expects half of his firm’s employees to work from home within ten years.
IN social media the giant’s appetite for the property however, it does not subside. In New York City, Facebook recently agreed to lease All 730,000 square feet of office space in the 1912 James A. Farley Historic Postal Service Building in Midtown Manhattan.
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REI’s real estate is located alongside three other Facebook-owned buildings in Spring, Bellevue, and Seattle has become Facebook’s largest engineering hub outside of its Menlo Park, California headquarters.
