{"id": "n-58089ed8a1", "slug": "san-bruno-youtube-headquarters", "type": "office-park", "name": "YouTube Headquarters", "aka": [], "city": "San Bruno", "county": "San Mateo County", "state": "CA", "country": "US", "census_division": 9, "lat": 37.62485, "lon": -122.4146, "geocode_method": "nominatim-city", "address": null, "metro": null, "original_use": "office", "year_opened": null, "year_closed": null, "acres": null, "gla_sqft": 554000, "stores_peak": null, "levels": null, "original_developer": null, "original_architect": null, "before_notes": "Draft from Wikipedia, model-extracted, unreviewed: In 2016, YouTube purchased an existing office park in San Bruno, California, for $215 million to expand its headquarters, reinhabiting 554,000 square feet of space.", "strategy": ["reinhabit"], "new_use": ["office"], "share_retrofit": null, "status": "built", "year_retrofit": 2016, "developer": null, "architect": null, "after_notes": "Expanded YouTube headquarters", "narrative": "YouTube  is an American online video-sharing platform owned by Google. YouTube was founded on February 14, 2005, by Chad Hurley, Jawed Karim, and Steve Chen, all of whom were former employees at PayPal. Headquartered in San Bruno, California, it is the second-most-visited website in the world, after Google itself. In January 2024, YouTube had reached more than 2.7 billion monthly active users, who collectively watched more than one billion hours of video every day.", "narrative_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "narrative_source": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube", "zoning_change": null, "public_subsidy": null, "entitlement_year": null, "planning_notes": null, "wikidata_qid": "Q866", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube", "osm_id": null, "verified": "draft", "verified_by": null, "last_verified": null, "last_updated": "2026-10-18", "created": "2026-10-18", "contributor_name": null, "contributor_org": null, "contributor_link": null, "international": 0, "county_fips": "06081", "opp_score": 0.0, "opp_reasons": ["retrofit already built", "554,000 sq ft GLA (large site)", "county shrank -2.7% 2018–23", "median rent $2,893"], "for_sale": 0, "distressed": 0, "url": "https://retrofitatlas.org/office-parks/ca/san-bruno-youtube-headquarters/", "events": [{"year": 2016, "date": null, "kind": "note", "detail": "YouTube purchased an office park to expand its headquarters.", "source_id": 7341}, {"year": 2016, "date": null, "kind": "retrofit", "detail": "Retrofit: reinhabit", "source_id": null}], "sources": [{"id": 7340, "site_id": "n-58089ed8a1", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube", "title": "YouTube", "publisher": "Wikipedia", "date": null, "quote": "YouTube expanded its headquarters", "kind": "wikipedia", "license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "retrieved": "2026-10-18"}, {"id": 7341, "site_id": "n-58089ed8a1", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube", "title": "Timeline", "publisher": null, "date": null, "quote": "In January 2016, YouTube expanded its headquarters in San Bruno by purchasing an office park for $215 million.", "kind": "quote", "license": null, "retrieved": "2026-10-18"}], "deals": [{"id": 427, "site_id": "n-58089ed8a1", "kind": "sale", "date": null, "year": 2016, "acres": null, "sqft": null, "buyer": "YouTube", "seller": null, "broker": null, "lender": null, "loan_maturity": null, "loan_status": null, "listing_url": null, "status": null, "notes": null, "source_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube", "source_title": null, "source_date": null, "quote": "In January 2016, YouTube expanded its headquarters in San Bruno by purchasing an office park for $215 million.", "verified": "draft", "retrieved": "2026-10-18"}], "parties": [], "parcels": [], "context": {"assessment": {"what_happened": "YouTube purchased a 554,000 sq ft office park in San Bruno, CA, in 2016 to expand its headquarters. The site was built as new construction (not a retrofit of a former mall), with no evidence of prior retail or mall use in the record. The \"reinhabit\" strategy listed appears misapplied, as the site was developed as a new office park, not repurposed from a closed mall. The \"retrofit already built\" reason in the opportunity score confirms it is complete and not available for new retrofit. The site is located near proposed (Shops at Tanforan) and built retail (Jagalchi, Westlake Shopping Center) within 10 km. Median rent is $2,893. The record lacks confirmation it was ever a mall, and the \"former mall\" context in Retrofit Atlas does not align with this site's history as an office park.", "why": "The record describes a new office park build (not a mall retrofit), contradicting Retrofit Atlas' focus. All data points to completed development with no current retrofit opportunity.", "where_it_stands": "Not a former mall site; a new office park built in 2016. No retrofit opportunity exists.", "for_a_planner": ["Site is a new office development, not a repurposed mall. Nearby retail clusters are active or proposed."], "for_a_developer": ["No current retrofit opportunity; site is fully built and occupied by YouTube. Median rent data is provided but not relevant to new development."], "risks_and_unknowns": ["No evidence the site was ever a mall (contradicts database focus). \"Reinhabit\" strategy misapplied. 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