Facebook Moving Headquarters To Menlo Park From Palo Alto

NEW YORK — Facebook is moving its headquarters out of Palo Alto, Calif., to the former campus of Sun Microsystems in Menlo Park.

The online social network, which has about 2,000 employees worldwide and 1,400 in Palo Alto, said Tuesday it will begin the move in June or July. But the company will continue to occupy its Palo Alto offices through 2011 and possibly 2012.

The former Sun Microsystems campus occupies 57 acres and contains nine buildings. Facebook says it also bought an adjacent 22-acre piece of land for future expansion.

Facebook, which has well over 500 million users, recently celebrated its seventh birthday.

Comments

[brklynivn]

06:10 AM on 02/11/2011

What they didn't move to the business "paradise" of Alabama or Texas?

[samuel liu]

04:00 AM on 02/11/2011

it is ridiculous how small some "cities" are in the USA. Nevertheless, I can ride my bike (foldup) between the 2 facebook sites in around 1/2 an hour.

most districts in Shanghai and all districts in Beijing are larger than most San Mateo County "cities", TIME TO MERGE AND SAVE COSTS

[Doug Watt]

11:23 PM on 02/09/2011

What is that, four blocks?

[davesf]

05:54 PM on 02/09/2011

I used to work for the architects who designed the Menlo Park campus, I've toured it, very cool place.

[javajava]

03:07 PM on 02/09/2011

Geez...they move six miles..whoopie!!

Actually being at the foot of the bridge makes an easier commute for the H1B workforce comming from Fremont.

*joke*

[JScott]

01:41 PM on 02/09/2011

Moving from one pricey city to another pricey city. Would be news if they moved to EAST Palo Alto.

[cf01]

09:13 PM on 02/09/2011

EPA is kinda cool. Took a drive around there last time I was out there. There's a great salvage demolition yard there that does a lot of charity work.

[Doug Watt]

11:25 PM on 02/09/2011

If nothing else, EPA has an IKEA. It used to be a really rough area.

[Tom95134]

12:40 PM on 02/09/2011

They should relocate to Michigan. It's time to reinvigorate the middle west and the Ann Arbor area has lots of computer talent living there. Housing costs are a lot lower and just the amount saved on building rent could be used for business expansion or to boost the salaries of employees. Besides, Michigan has 4 seasons instead of just the two (green & brown) that California has.

[davesf]

05:55 PM on 02/09/2011

LOL, yea, we do kind of have perpetual spring and fall...instead of 100 degree muggy horror during summer and freeze-yr-butt-off winter. (I like winter in the midwest, to visit, but I wouldn't want to live in it.)

[Doug Watt]

11:28 PM on 02/09/2011

Well, we can drive to Tahoe for the snow. I lived in Dallas for a few years and I'll never leave California again nor live farther than an hour's drive from the ocean again.

[Cael]

11:17 AM on 02/09/2011

I wonder when the facebook bubble will burst. Does it have 5 years left in it?

[Deadrat]

09:34 PM on 02/09/2011

its the google of social networks. its got a ways to go.

[onionboy]

03:27 PM on 02/10/2011

My wife has basically abandoned it for Twitter.

[Indra]

11:12 AM on 02/09/2011

Well what do you know. Whoopy toopey Ai Ay! and poop-oop-pee-doop! That really makes my day and I am so glad you shared that with us all out here in nowhere land.

[Rich Baska]

01:22 AM on 02/09/2011

Kind of misses the point that Facebook has outgrown the Palo Alto facility and will be hiring as well as moving.

[Kamereon]

10:30 PM on 02/08/2011

Who cares, this would only be news if they moved out of California.

[infamousboone]

09:45 PM on 02/08/2011

zuck: "first the south bay, then the entire internet, and finally, the world! muahahahah"

[missmanners]

10:58 AM on 02/09/2011

that was a great cartoon

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJPFSNu_QNs

[brklynivn]

08:01 PM on 02/08/2011

Gee, and here I thought they were off to Kansas or Texas, those "fiscally conservative" business friendly red states....

[maddenman77]

06:03 PM on 02/08/2011

Where r they moving?

[Schoolgirl666]

11:06 AM on 02/09/2011

Next to the Dumbarton Bridge in Menlo Park....

[Shaun Hensley]

02:07 PM on 02/09/2011

Practically next door.

[Kashif Vikaas]

05:59 PM on 02/08/2011

Why is the Facebook logo red at the headquarters, and blue on the website