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62-513: A modern campus is a collection of buildings and grounds that belong to a given institution, either academic or non-academic. Examples include the Googleplex and Apple Park . The word derives from a Latin word for "field" and was first used to describe the large field adjacent Nassau Hall of the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University ) in 1774. The field separated Princeton from

124-641: A Roman Catholic secondary school ; German International School of Silicon Valley (GISSV), a PK-12 German-English bilingual international school; and Yew Chung International School of Silicon Valley , a PK-8 Chinese-English bilingual international school. Mountain View has one central public library, the Mountain View Public Library, which has video, music, books, and access to the Internet. The library provides outreach services through

186-618: A cloistered environment. The notion of the importance of the setting to academic life later migrated to America, and early colonial educational institutions were based on the Scottish and English collegiate system. The campus evolved from the cloistered model in Europe to a diverse set of independent styles in the United States. Early colonial colleges were all built in proprietary styles, with some contained in single buildings, such as

248-431: A bowling alley, massage rooms, organic gardens, and eighteen cafeterias with diverse menus. Google installed replicas of SpaceShipOne and a dinosaur skeleton. Since 2017, solar panels cover the rooftops of eight buildings and two solar carports, capable of producing 1.6 megawatts of electricity. At the time of installation, Google believed it to be the largest in the United States among corporations. The panels provide

310-628: A few blocks away. In September 2023, Google announced the Google Visitor Experience, a visitor center next to the Googleplex which occupies the building formerly known as Charleston East, and now known as Gradient Canopy. The visitor center includes a Google Store , a public plaza, a café, and public art, and opened on October 12, 2023. The Googleplex is located between Charleston Road, Amphitheatre Parkway, and Shoreline Boulevard in north Mountain View, California , close to

372-662: A number of Council Advisory Bodies Archived October 8, 2019, at the Wayback Machine , which provide input on a range of city matters pertaining to development, land use and historical preservation. The Mountain View Fire Department maintains five stations, and is responsible for fire protection and emergency medical services. The Mountain View Police Department maintains patrol, traffic enforcement, detective, K9 and SWAT services for

434-556: A special tax district. In 2016, the city's voters approved a rent control ordinance. According to the United States Census Bureau , the city has a total area of 12.236 square miles (31.69 km ), of which 11.958 square miles (30.97 km ) is land and 0.278 square miles (0.72 km ) (2.26%) is water. The city borders Palo Alto and the San Francisco Bay to the north, Los Altos to

496-553: A strong influence on the development of aerospace and electronics industries. Today, high technology is the foundation of the local economy. Few remnants are visible of the city's agricultural past. In 1990, Kevin Duggan began his position as city manager. He built a relationship with Google, Inc., and issued a long-term lease to it and other technology companies. As of 2014, those leases generate over $ 5 million per year in city revenue. The Castro Street downtown area also benefited from

558-594: Is featured in the 2013 film The Internship , with the Georgia Tech campus standing in as a double, because Google disallows filming on the campus grounds for privacy reasons. It was the inspiration for the fictional Hooli headquarters in the HBO TV series Silicon Valley . Mountain View, California Mountain View is a city in Santa Clara County , California , United States , part of

620-546: Is located between the bounds of San Antonio Road, Middlefield Road, Rengstorff Avenue and Central Expressway. Currently Monta Loma houses a collection of California-style mid-century modern houses by Joseph Eichler , John Calder Mackay , and Mardell Building Company. Mountain View has a warm-summer Mediterranean climate ( Köppen climate classification Csb : dry-summer subtropical). Summers are warm and dry, while winters are cool and wet. However, both summers and winters are somewhat moderated due to its relative proximity to

682-536: Is the corporate headquarters complex of Google and its parent company, Alphabet Inc . It is located at 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway in Mountain View, California . The original complex, with 2 million square feet (190,000 square meters) of office space, is the company's second largest square footage assemblage of Google buildings, after Google's 111 Eighth Avenue building in New York City , which

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744-527: Is the transit center for the city, connecting the public commuter rail, light rail, bus, and private shuttle systems. It is one of the busiest transit centers in the county, behind Milpitas, Palo Alto and San Jose. Mountain View is served by the Caltrain commuter rail system, which runs from San Francisco to Gilroy . The two Caltrain stations in the city are the Mountain View Station and

806-527: The 23rd Assembly District , represented by Democrat Marc Berman . In the United States House of Representatives , Mountain View is in California's 16th congressional district , represented by Democrat Anna Eshoo . Mountain View is represented by a 7-member council elected at-large. The mayor is a council member appointed by their peers each year. The City Council maintains

868-602: The Computer History Museum , and Century Theatres . Moffett Field is nearby to the east. Google in its 2012-year-end annual report said it had 3.5 million square feet of office space in Mountain View. Google has another large campus in Mountain View dubbed "The Quad" at 399 North Whisman Road about 3 miles (5 kilometers) from the Googleplex. In 2013, Google leased the entire Mayfield Mall , an enclosed shopping mall that last operated in 1984 and

930-972: The Mountain View-Whisman School District . Springer Elementary, although located within the borders of Mountain View, is governed by the Los Altos School District . The public high schools are governed by the Mountain View-Los Altos Union High School District and consist of Alta Vista High School , Mountain View High School , and Los Altos High School . Mountain View High and Los Altos High each contain approximately 50% Los Altos residents and 50% Mountain View residents. Some Mountain View residents attend Almond Elementary and Egan Junior High in

992-671: The San Francisco Bay Area . Named for its views of the Santa Cruz Mountains , the population was 82,376 at the 2020 census . Mountain View was integral to the early history and growth of Silicon Valley , and is the location of many high technology companies. In 1956, William Shockley established Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory in Mountain View, the first company to develop silicon semiconductor devices in Silicon Valley. Mountain View houses

1054-687: The Shoreline Park wetlands . Employees living in San Francisco, the East Bay, or South Bay may take a free Wi-Fi -enabled Google shuttle to and from work. The shuttles are powered by a fuel blend of 95% petroleum diesel and 5% biodiesel and have the latest emissions reduction technology. To the north lies the Shoreline Amphitheatre and Intuit , and to the south lies Microsoft 's Silicon Valley research complex,

1116-524: The 1950s and 1960s on orchard land. The Cuernavaca neighborhood is located off Crestview Drive near the Sunnyvale border. This neighborhood used to be the location of a cherry orchard, and later a nine-hole golf course and swim club before it was turned into housing, which was completed in 1989. Most of the housing in Cuernavaca is Spanish-style, with red tiled roofs. The Monta Loma neighborhood

1178-457: The 20th century, with the old meaning persisting into the 1950s in some places. In the early 1990s the term began to be used to describe a company's office building complex, most notably when Apple 's Infinite Loop campus was first built, which at the time was exclusively for research and development. The Microsoft Campus in Redmond, Washington , is another example of this usage, although it

1240-599: The 42-acre (17-hectare) site. Google planned in 2015 a 60-acre (24-hectare) addition designed by Heatherwick Studio and Bjarke Ingels in North Bayshore. The site, however, was granted to LinkedIn by the city councilors and the Google project was revised in 2016, with 3 buildings to be built on 2 different sites east of Googleplex in Mountain View: one immediately next to Googleplex, and the two smaller ones

1302-451: The Googleplex, for $ 319 million. Because the buildings are of relatively low height, the complex sprawls out over a large area of land. The interior of the headquarters is furnished with items like shade lamps and giant rubber balls and the lobby contains a piano and a projection of current live Google search queries. Facilities include free laundry rooms (Buildings 40, 42 & CL3), two small swimming pools, multiple sand volleyball courts,

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1364-646: The Los Altos School District. Mountain View taxed a large portion of its most valuable commercial and industrial properties in the Shoreline Regional Park Community at very low relative levels, and until the creation of a joint-powers agreement (JPA) in 2006, none of those property taxes reached the local schools. After the creation of the JPA, the Shoreline Regional Park Community shared less than $ 1 million per year with

1426-498: The North Shoreline neighborhood, north of Highway 101. The Blossom Valley neighborhood comprises five smaller neighborhoods: Springer Meadows, Varsity Park, Blossom Valley Estates, Springer Trees, and Gest Ranch subdivision known as Miramonte Oaks which borders Los Altos. This would be one of the more exclusive areas, this development was built in 1963 to about 1965. The other neighborhood's ranch-style housing were built in

1488-486: The Pacific, although it has a lesser maritime influence than San Francisco further north on the peninsula. Mountain View is one of the major cities that make up Silicon Valley , and has many notable Silicon Valley companies either headquartered there or with a large presence. As of 2024, major tech companies such as Google and Intuit were headquartered in Mountain View. In 2018, the comparison site CareerBliss ranked

1550-580: The SGI project was a significant departure from typical corporate campuses and which challenged conventional thinking about private and public space, and awarded the project the ASLA Centennial Medallion in 1999. The former SGI facilities were leased by Google beginning in 2003. A redesign of the interiors was completed by Clive Wilkinson Architects in 2005. In June 2006, Google purchased some of Silicon Graphics's properties, including

1612-441: The age of 18 living in them, 13,806 (43.2%) were opposite-sex married couples living together, 2,456 (7.7%) had a female householder with no husband present, 1,253 (3.9%) had a male householder with no wife present. There were 1,928 (6.0%) unmarried opposite-sex partnerships , and 280 (0.9%) same-sex married couples or partnerships . 10,961 households (34.3%) were made up of individuals, and 2,471 (7.7%) had someone living alone who

1674-419: The age of 18 living with them, 40.0% were married couples living together, 7.3% had a female householder with no husband present, and 49.1% were non-families. 35.6% of all households were made up of individuals, and 7.0% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.25 and the average family size was 2.97. In the city, the population was spread out, with 18.0% under

1736-462: The age of 18, 8.3% from 18 to 24, 43.4% from 25 to 44, 19.8% from 45 to 64, and 10.5% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 35 years. For every 100 females, there were 106.8 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 106.9 males. The median income for a household in the city was $ 69,362, and the median income for a family was $ 80,379. Males had a median income of $ 64,585 versus $ 44,358 for females. The per capita income for

1798-591: The bookmobile and S.O.S. volunteer program to those in Mountain View who are unable to come to the main branch. The building was built in 1997. The second floor of the library has a special collection in a room devoted to the history of Mountain View, which features a portrait of Crisanto Castro, for whom the major downtown thoroughfare is named. Displayed outside the library is a piece of the Berlin Wall , installed in 2013. The Downtown Mountain View Station

1860-442: The campus of Princeton University or arranged in a version of the cloister reflecting American values, such as Harvard's. Both the campus designs and the architecture of colleges throughout the country have evolved in response to trends in the broader world, with most representing several different contemporary and historical styles and arrangements. The meaning expanded to include the whole university institutional property during

1922-543: The choice of residence for many working poor in the city. The city's communications coordinator called it a "new" situation, noting that many of the residents living in RVs were working up to three jobs, and that affordable housing was hard to come by in the city. In December 2017, Google received approval to build nearly 10,000 new units of housing near its future campus in the city. As of the 2000 census , there were 70,708 people, 31,242 households, and 15,902 families residing in

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1984-538: The city number 1 in the United States on its list of Happiest Cities to Work for 2018. After voting to increase the minimum wage incrementally in 2015, in December 2017, the Mountain View City Council implemented a mandatory $ 15 minimum wage, to apply to employees who work two or more hours a week. At the start of 2018, Mountain View raised its minimum wage to $ 15. Starting on January 1, 2019,

2046-412: The city was $ 39,693. About 3.6% of families and 6.8% of the population were below the poverty line , including 7.2% of those under age 18 and 5.9% of those age 65 or over. Mountain View has a council-manager government system. An executive city manager is in charge of several departments, while the city council, supported by several boards, commissions, and committees, is the legislature responsible for

2108-591: The city, and participates in several task forces, including the Regional Allied Computer Crime Task Force (REACT) and the Regional Auto Theft Task Force (RAATF). Mountain View is served by a mix of public and private schools. The public elementary (Bubb, Castro, Imai, Landels, Mistral , Monta Loma , Stevenson, Theuerkauf, and Vargas) and middle schools (Crittenden and Graham) are governed by

2170-624: The city. The population density was 6,888.8 inhabitants per square mile (2,659.8/km ) There were 37,295 housing units. According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Mountain View had an unemployment rate of 5.0% in August 2013. It had a female population of 47.8 percent and a male population of 52.2 percent. Persons under five were 6.4 percent, persons under 18 were 20.3 percent, and persons aged 65 and older were 11.1 percent in 2020. In 2022, 5.4 percent of people in Mountain View were living below

2232-475: The city. The population density was 2,263.7/km (5,863/sq mi). There were 32,432 housing units at an average density of 1,038.3/km (2,689/sq mi). The racial makeup of the city was 63.77% White , 20.67% Asian , 18.26% Hispanic or Latino (of any race), 2.53% African American , 0.39% Native American , 0.26% Pacific Islander , 8.32% from other races , and 4.07% from two or more races. There were 31,242 households, out of which 23.3% had children under

2294-495: The company bought in 2010. "Googleplex" is a portmanteau of Google and complex (meaning a complex of buildings ) and a reference to googolplex , the name given to the large number 10 , or 10 . The site was previously occupied by Silicon Graphics (SGI). The office space and corporate campus is located within a larger 26-acre (11-hectare) site that contains Charleston Park, a 5-acre (2-hectare) public park; improved access to Permanente Creek; and public roads that connect

2356-596: The corporate site to Shoreline Park and the Bay Trail. The project, launched in 1994, was built on the site of one of the few working farms in the area and was city owned at the time (identified as "Farmer's Field" in the planning documents). It was a creative collaboration between SGI, StUDIOS Architecture, SWA Group, and the Planning and Community Development Agency of the City of Mountain View, California . The objective

2418-462: The elementary and high school districts. In 2008, a citizen-supported parcel tax, largely aimed at reducing class sizes, was renewed in an overwhelmingly positive vote. The current ratio of students to full-time-equivalent teachers in the Mountain View public elementary schools is 20.4 : 1. Notable private schools in Mountain View include: Khan Lab School , a laboratory school associated with Khan Academy ; Saint Francis High School ,

2480-579: The federal Superfund program. The sites were formerly used by companies including Fairchild Semiconductor , Intel , Raytheon , CTS Printex Inc., Spectra-Physics, Jasco Chemical, GTE and Teledyne . These seven sites make up a portion of the 22 NPL sites in Santa Clara County, which are included in the total of 94 sites in California. As of the 2020 census , there were 82,376 people and 34,423 households, and 19,585 families residing in

2542-525: The first big general merchandise store in the settlement. William Bubb bought 80 acres (32 ha) to farm in October 1851; he became a leader in town and died there in 1864. His heirs' descendants prospered, marrying into other pioneer families. The U.S. Navy's adjacent 1,000-acre (4.0 km ) Moffett Field Complex was constructed beginning after 1931; its development attracted many workers and it brought many economic opportunities. After World War II ,

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2604-500: The headquarters of many of the world's largest technology companies, including Google and Alphabet Inc. , Unicode Consortium , Intuit , NASA Ames Research Center, and former or existing headquarters for Microsoft , Symantec , 23andMe , LinkedIn , Samsung , Quora and Synopsys . The fertile land between the Santa Cruz Mountains and the shores of the southern San Francisco Bay once supported multiple villages of

2666-533: The indigenous Ohlone people . Spanish missionaries utilized the land for sheep pastures. The Mexican land grant of Rancho Pastoria de las Borregas was given in 1842 by Alta California Governor Juan Alvarado to Francisco Estrada. This grant was later passed on to Mariano Castro, who sold half of the land to Martin Murphy Jr. Eventually, the former land grant was developed as the cities of Mountain View and Sunnyvale . The southwest shore of San Francisco Bay

2728-536: The minimum wage in Mountain View is $ 18.75 per hour. According to the city's 2023 Annual Comprehensive Financial Report, the largest employers in the city are: Due to its history as a center for semiconductor manufacturing, Mountain View has seven sites on the Environmental Protection Agency 's Final National Priorities List (NPL), a list of hazardous waste sites in the United States eligible for long-term remedial action financed under

2790-565: The minimum wage was to be "adjusted annually based on the San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose regional Consumer Price Index." A proposal to slow down the rate of the wage increases by a year was defeated in a City Council meeting on December 4, 2018. Subsequently, on December 30, 2018, it was announced that Mountain View's minimum wage would rise to $ 15.65 on January 1, 2019, with the increase delayed by one year for companies with 25 or fewer employees. As of January 2024,

2852-404: The ordinances of the city code. The executive in turn enforces the code and promulgates administrative regulations to execute it. The city clerk and attorney perform supporting roles. The Community Development Department is the agency responsible for planning and zoning. In the state legislature , Mountain View is in the 13th Senate District , represented by Democrat Josh Becker , and in

2914-568: The population grew significantly with the development of regional aerospace and electronics industries. Between 1950 and 1960, the population grew from 6,563 to 30,889, an increase of 370.7%. Between 1929 and 1994, Moffett Field Naval Air Station operated in Mountain View. In 1940, the city was the base of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (now the NASA Ames Research Center), which had

2976-580: The population) lived in owner-occupied housing units, and 41,799 people (56.4%) lived in rental housing units. According to the Santa Clara County Homeless Census and Survey, the number of homeless individuals in Mountain View increased 51% from 2015 to 2017, with 276 homeless individuals in 2015, and 416 in 2017. In August 2017, the Mercury News reported that Mountain View had seen RVs and recreational vehicles become

3038-525: The poverty line. Of the citizens over the age of sixteen, 72.9 percent were employed in the labor force, while 27.1 percent were not. As of the 2010 census , there were 74,066 people, _ households, and _ families residing in the city. The population density was 6,174.6 inhabitants per square mile (2,384.0/km ). There were 34,136 housing units. 145 (0.2%) lived in non-institutionalized group quarters, and 120 (0.2%) were institutionalized. There were 31,957 households, out of which 8,731 (27.3%) had children under

3100-539: The power for 30% of the peak electricity demand in their solar-powered buildings. Four 100 kW Bloom Energy Servers were shipped to Google in July 2008, as the first customer of Bloom Energy. The Android lawn statues were outside of Building 44 on Charleston Road, and were relocated on the Google campus at 1981 Landings Drive. They include a giant green statue of the Android logo and additional statues to represent all

3162-439: The small nearby town. Some other American colleges later adopted the word to describe individual fields at their own institutions, but "campus" did not yet describe the whole university property. A school might have one space called a campus, another called a field, and still another called a yard. The tradition of a campus began with the medieval European universities where the students and teachers lived and worked together in

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3224-616: The south and southwest by Los Altos , and to the east by Sunnyvale and Moffett Federal Airfield . The Santa Cruz Mountains , the origin of the city's name, lie to the west. This range separates Mountain View from the Pacific Ocean and, together with the Diablo Range to the south-east, form the Santa Clara Valley . Most of Mountain View consists of residential neighborhoods. Business parks are located mostly in

3286-538: The south, and Moffett Federal Airfield and Sunnyvale to the east. Mountain View is located in the south-eastern and south-western section of the San Francisco Peninsula, at the north end of State Route 85 , where it meets U.S. Route 101 . State Route 82 follows the route of the historic El Camino Real through Mountain View. The city is bounded to the north by the Bay , northeast by Palo Alto , to

3348-556: The versions of the Android operating system. In 2013, construction began on a new 1.1-million-square-foot (100,000-square-meter) campus dubbed "Bay View", adjoining the original campus on 42 acres (17 ha) leased from the NASA Ames Research Center and overlooking San Francisco Bay at Moffett Federal Airfield . The estimated cost of the project was $ 120 million with a target opening date of 2015. NBBJ

3410-423: Was 35.9 years. For every 100 females, there were 103.6 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 103.5 males. There were 33,881 housing units at an average density of 2,760.6 units per square mile (1,065.9 units/km ), of which 13,332 (41.7%) were owner-occupied, and 18,625 (58.3%) were occupied by renters. The homeowner vacancy rate was 1.3%; the rental vacancy rate was 4.4%. 32,002 people (43.2% of

3472-419: Was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.31. There were 17,515 families (54.8% of all households); the average family size was 3.01. The population was spread out, with 14,594 people (19.7%) under the age of 18, 5,401 people (7.3%) aged 18 to 24, 28,577 people (38.6%) aged 25 to 44, 17,647 people (23.8%) aged 45 to 64, and 7,846 people (10.6%) who were 65 years of age or older. The median age

3534-604: Was built in the 1980s, before the term was applied to company property. In the 21st century, hospitals and even airports sometimes use the term to describe the territory of their respective facilities. The word campus has also been applied to European universities, although some such institutions (in particular, "ancient" universities such as Bologna , Padua , Oxford and Cambridge ) are characterized by ownership of individual buildings in university town -like urban settings rather than sprawling park-like lawns in which buildings are placed. Googleplex The Googleplex

3596-404: Was leased by Hewlett-Packard from 1986 to 2002. The semi-secret Google X Lab , which is the development lab for items such as Google Glass , is located in "ordinary two-story red-brick buildings" about 1 ⁄ 2 mile (800 meters) from the Googleplex. It has a "burbling fountain out front and rows of company-issued bikes, which employees use to shuttle to the main campus." The Googleplex

3658-461: Was meeting relatives: the Ricketts and others who had migrated from Missouri and Kentucky . He was the first Baptist minister in town. He soon rode a circuit for preaching, going by horseback to Half-Moon Bay and McCarthysville for services. Later that year, Seligman Weilheimer and his brother Samuel immigrated from Dossenheim, Baden, Germany . They settled on the next plot, and in 1856 built

3720-592: Was settled by European-Americans in 1852 as a stagecoach station. This was after the United States acquired California. By the early 1900s, it was a shipping point for fruit and grain, as well as a center of religious book publishing. The early pioneers were commonly buried at the old cemetery between Mercy & Church, off Castro Street. This is now the site of the present city library and park, known as Pioneer Park. Reverend Henry Merrill Henderson, born in Maryland, arrived here at age 35 with his family in 1852; he

3782-585: Was the architect and this was the first time Google has designed its own buildings. The addition is off the northeast corner of the complex, by the Stevens Creek Nature Study Area and Shoreline Park . Before announcing the construction, Google, through its internal real estate firm, Planetary Ventures, sought permission from the City of Mountain View to build bridges over the adjacent Stevens Creek . Google's 2012 year-end annual report noted it can develop only 7 acres (2.8 ha) of

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3844-400: Was to develop in complementary fashion the privately owned corporate headquarters and adjoining public greenspace. Key design decisions placed parking for nearly 2000 cars underground, enabling SWA to integrate the two open spaces with water features, shallow pools, fountains, pathways, and plazas. The project was completed in 1997. The American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) noted that

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