That seems to seriously underestimate Google's footprint in SF. If 180000 square feet is enough space for 1400 twitter employees, you can extrapolate from Google's public leases that they have enough space to be either the #2 or even #1 tech employer in SF.
1: Both sides of the Hills Plaza building: ~450k sq. ft. 2: 250k sq. ft. at 1 market. 3: the entire 188 Embarcadero, which looks like maybe 75k sq. ft.
Just straight-line extrapolating from the Twitter property, that's space for over 5000 people.
Ok but the north side alone is pretty large and anyway wouldn't you agree that 1500 is a very low number for those three properties combined? I'm sure they have other offices that haven't been made public, too.
1: Both sides of the Hills Plaza building: ~450k sq. ft. 2: 250k sq. ft. at 1 market. 3: the entire 188 Embarcadero, which looks like maybe 75k sq. ft.
Just straight-line extrapolating from the Twitter property, that's space for over 5000 people.
http://sf.curbed.com/2014/7/25/10069066/future-google-landlo...
http://sf.curbed.com/2014/7/14/10074388/google-buys-188-emba...