Google Goes Big In LA, Gobbles Up 12 Acres In Playa Vista

Google has set its sights on Hollywood.

And, for good measure, the Spruce Goose, too.

The Bay Area-based tech titan has moved to expand in Los Angeles in a big way with a $120 million purchase of 12 acres in Playa Vista, according to reports.

The Los Angeles Times notes that there's room at the site for up to 900,000 square feet of commercial space, a "vast" expansion of Google's current presence of a "handful" of buildings in LA.

Google is also expected to lease the 319,000-square foot hangar where aviator Howard Hughes built his colossal failure, the Spruce Goose, the newspaper reported.

Google declined to "detail its plans," but the newspaper guessed that as many as 6,000 workers could eventually have a home at the company's new base.

This latest acquisition is part of a sustained spending spree that's seen Google expand its presence in the Bay Area to 15 million square feet, according to the newspaper.

Google has a 100,000-square foot campus in Venice, where about 600 people work.

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