2005: First office in downtown Palo Alto, Calif.
Facebook’s first grown-up office was a relatively modest affair at 156 University Avenue in Palo Alto, Calif. It was situated above a Chinese restaurant in the city’s downtown area and reportedly contained about six individual offices, a conference room and a common area.
2008: Opens office in Paris
The social media giant decided to expand internationally pretty quickly, setting up a sales office in Paris in late 2008, on Rue de L’Amiral Hamelin (the office has since moved).
2009: Move to 1601 California Avenue in Palo Alto
By mid-2009, Facebook grew enough to lease a 150,000-sq.-ft. office complex formerly occupied by Hewlett Packard at 1601 California Avenue in Palo Alto.
2009: Opens first office in Canada
In November of the same year, the firm leased an office at 2300 Younge Street in Toronto.
2010: Opens Seattle office
By mid-2010, Facebook’s engineering department was setting up a home front in Seattle, at 101 Stewart Street.
2011: Opens office in the Los Angeles area
Then it was on to Southern California, with an 8,000- to 15,000-sq.-ft. lease at Tishman Speyer’s office complex in Playa Vista. Hines Global REIT Inc. has since purchased the four-building property from Tishman Speyer for $218 million.
2011: Completes deal for One Hacker Way in Menlo Park, Calif.
The same year, Facebook bought the one-million-sq.-ft., 11-building former Sun Microsystems’ headquarters at 1050 Page Mill Road in Menlo Park, Calif. After the move, the campus’ official address was changed to One Hacker Way. Foreseeing future expansion, the company’s execs also reportedly completed a 15-year sale-leaseback of a 22-acre building connected to the Menlo Park property by a tunnel.
2012: Opens London office
The following March, an engineering office was set up in the Coventry Gardens neighborhood of London, at 10 Brock Street.
2013: Opens Washington, D.C. office
Facebook moved in on Pennsylvania Avenue in early 2013, signing a 20,616-sq.-ft. lease with Vornado Realty Trust at 1299 Pennsylvania Avenue NW.
2013: Opens office in the Vancouver area
In June 2013, the company was popping up in the Great White North, with an office at 1555 West Pender in Coal Harbor.
2013: Opens Montreal office
It also opened an office in the heart of Canada’s French province.
2014: Opens New York office at 770 Broadway
The next year, the social media giant decided it could make it in New York, leasing 185,000 sq. ft. of space from Vornado Realty Trust at 770 Broadway. Facebook’s rent at the property is estimated to be in the mid $70-per-sq.-ft. range.
2014: Opens office in Dublin
The company also continued its European expansion, with the opening of a 120,000-sq.-ft. office at 4 Grand Canal Square in Dublin.
2014: Expands Menlo Park campus by 59 acres
The Southern California headquarters campus grew some more, with the purchase of 59 acres of land from neighbor TE Connectivity for a reported $101.6 million. At the time of purchase, the new site contained 10 buildings, with the capacity to accomodate one million sq. ft. of space.
2015: Expands New York office
Last week, Facebook signed an expansion lease for 80,000 sq. ft. at its New York office at 770 Broadway.
2015: Expands Menlo Park holdings by an additional 56 acres
And then the firm capped off the same week with the purchase of that 56-acre industrial park adjacent to its Menlo Park campus from Prologis Inc. for a reported $400 million. The property, up till now known as Menlo Science & Technology Park, houses 21 buildings.
