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Google enlarges NY footprint with US$2.4b Chelsea Market deal

It is only the latest example of an internet behemoth, and even smaller tech companies, expanding rapidly in New York City

Published Thu, Feb 8, 2018 · 09:50 PM

    New York

    IT is a tech takeover.

    Google, the tech company with a seemingly insatiable appetite for space in New York, is buying Chelsea Market, the blocklong Nabisco factory turned food mart, office building and tourist attraction, for about US$2.4 billion.

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