MOUNTAIN VIEW — Google purchased a Mountain View building near two of its iconic office hubs in a deal that gives the company ownership of a building it was already occupying.
Google paid $32.8 million in an all-cash deal for an office building about a block from the company’s Google Gradient Canopy building and a few blocks from the Googleplex headquarters campus, documents filed on Dec. 18 with the Santa Clara County Recorder’s Office show.
Jeffrey A. Morris Group, a Bay Area real estate firm that acted through an affiliate, sold the building, according to county documents.
The building at 1808 North Shoreline Blvd. totals 21,900 square feet, according to documents on file with Mountain View city planners.
In 2023, the Morris Group firm floated a proposal to develop a 108,900-square-foot office building, but the project never broke ground.
Google has frequently bought properties, large and small, primarily in Mountain View, Sunnyvale, North San Jose, and downtown San Jose over a period of several years.
In 2018, Google paid $1 billion for a 51.8-acre, 12-building Mountain View office hub that at the time was known as Shoreline Technology Park.
In 2019, Google paid $1 billion for several Sunnyvale properties sold by Verizon that included the one-time headquarters of Yahoo!.
Over a period of roughly three years, starting in December 2016 and ending in March 2019, Google paid an estimated $445 million to collect dozens of properties in downtown San Jose. Google wanted the land for a mixed-use neighborhood known as Downtown West. In 2023, Google paused development of the downtown transit village, saying it was reassessing the project’s timeline.
Google has also bought office buildings and large industrial properties in North San Jose, as well as properties in Palo Alto and Redwood City.
