A look at Facebook's 59-acre Willow Village development in Menlo Park, with 1,500 apartments and other amenities, as it follows in Apple and Google's footsteps
In Menlo Park, Calif., Facebook is building a real community and testing the proposition: Do people love tech companies so much they will live inside them? Tweets: @ssstrom , @davethackeray , @williamturton , and @kevinroose Tweets: Stephanie Strom / @ssstrom : “Corporations are paying for things that the city or county and state used to pay for,” said Cecilia Taylor of Belle Haven Action. “They have a lot of money. A lot of money. More than the city does. And a lot more power.” And there you have it. http://www.nytimes.com/... Thack / @davethackeray : Zuck's intrusion into our lives has been insidious. So let's take it up a notch. By not only living with Facebook - but inside it. https://www.nytimes.com/... William Turton / @williamturton : yikes https://www.nytimes.com/... pic.twitter.com/PFJmDTVUsQ Kevin Roose / @kevinroose : “Facebook is testing the proposition: Do people love tech companies so much they will live inside of them?” Good @DavidStreitfeld story on Facebook's company town. http://www.nytimes.com/...