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Welcome to St. John’s Terminal, our new home in New York City

At St. John's Terminal we’ve applied the latest research on how Googlers work today to create a workplace that is designed around teams first.

These neighborhoods aren’t one-size-fits-all: they have a variety of desks, meeting rooms, phone booths and communal tables for the different types of work Googlers do every day.

We’ve piloted shared neighborhoods in some of our other offices, and Googlers have told us that these new spaces foster greater levels of social connection and team cohesion.

In addition to shared neighborhoods, we’ve dedicated just as much of St. John’s Terminal to a range of communal spaces that don’t have traditional desks, but rather serve as common spaces where any Googler can work, including those visiting New York from our other offices.

These communal spaces include expansive work lounges on every floor, cafes, terraces, micro-kitchens, and more.

These communal spaces offer Googlers an enormous variety of work environments, from those that feel like a buzzing coffee shop, to a breezy outdoor garden, to a quiet library with sweeping views of the Hudson.

St. John’s Terminal has been designed from the ground up as a place to collaborate with partners who rely on our tools to grow their business.

Multiple floors of St. John’s Terminal are dedicated to this kind of partner-based work, with an events hub, cafe space, and breakout rooms to serve every size and type of client.

Providing ample, dedicated space where clients can come in and spend the day collaborating shoulder-to-shoulder with Googlers is key to understanding their needs and working together to find creative solutions.

The building has 1.5 acres of vegetation at street level, in rail bed gardens, in window boxes, and on terraces, redefining what “green space” means for commercial real estate in New York. Exposed rail beds along the northern facade nod to the history of St. John's Terminal.

The building also incorporates solar panels, rainwater retention and wood that was repurposed from the Coney Island boardwalk after Hurricane Sandy.

Over 95% of the exterior plants at St. John’s Terminal are native to New York State, reknitting the building into the local system.


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This third-party projection is based on a 2021 Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) for the existing structure, covering existing caissons, foundation walls, slabs, beams, and columns. The interior design was not factored into this LCA. The EPA’s Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies Calculator was used to calculate equivalent cars off the road for a year.


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