<span style="font-size: large;">SAN FRANCISCO -- There goes the neighborhood.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">First came the Google bus. Now the Google building.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">The Mission District -- which used to be a largely Latino
working-class neighborhood -- has been ground zero for growing tensions
over tech-driven gentrification in San Francisco.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Now the Internet giant won’t just be running its fleet of luxury
commuter buses on its congested streets. It's setting up operations in
the neighborhood.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Google plans to take over a 35,000-square-foot building on Alabama Street to house start-ups the Internet giant acquires, <a href="http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/ab00362c-9739-11e3-a274-00144feab7de.html?siteedition=intl#axzz2thVP4jq8">according to</a> the Financial Times. The space is large enough to fit about 200 staffers.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Google is looking to cash in on the neighborhood’s hipster vibe that
its upscale corporate home in the South of Market area of downtown San
Francisco does not have. (Google is also opening an office in the trendy
South Park neighborhood for its Google Ventures team, which invests in
very young companies).</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">The move reflects the rising competition for technology workers who
prefer to live in San Francisco. The growing number of technology
workers who make the hour-long commute to Silicon Valley and the growing
number of technology jobs here have led to a sharp rise in home prices,
rents and evictions.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">"When Google is buying companies, they don’t want to work in the big
corporate building in San Francisco or Mountain View. So they are
acquiring something cool in the Mission where engineers want to work," a
source from the neighborhood told the Financial Times.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Google's third outpost in San Francisco also shows just how important the city has become to the tech industry.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">A Google spokeswoman declined to comment.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Google will be moving into office space formerly occupied by Howard
Quinn, which printed newspapers and catalogs. It went out of business in
2012, eclipsed by the rise of the Internet. The space is zoned for
manufacturing so Google could conceivably develop gadgets, robotics and
wearable technology there.</span><br />
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