Google growth online reflected by expansion...(Googletown)

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more: http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_16586782?nclick_check=1&forced=true


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The company's goals are to build a headquarters that would be "nurturing and regenerative to the environment, provide a vibrant community and work/life balance for all," Google real estate chief David Radcliffe wrote in a letter to city officials earlier this year.

City officials say they are considering where housing could be built and how much of it is needed as part of the new citywide general plan. The City Council could endorse basic concepts for that plan this month.

"I don't want to say it's the new company town," Gregory M. Davies, a vice president with commercial real estate firm Cassidy Turley CPS, said of Google's role, "but it's not far from it."