Menlo Park Getting Facelift For Facebook Tenancy

As Facebook prepares to move into Menlo Park digs, the company and the municipality imagine big changes for the neighborhood, and on March 5, 100-plus architecture and design companies will spend 12 hours brainstorming proposals for revamping the area not only to accommodate the city's new "anchor tenant," but also to attract other businesses that might cater to the social network's employees.

As Facebook prepares to move into Menlo Park digs, the company and the municipality imagine big changes for the neighborhood, and on March 5, 100-plus architecture and design companies will spend 12 hours brainstorming proposals for revamping the area not only to accommodate the city’s new “anchor tenant,” but also to attract other businesses that might cater to the social network’s employees.

Menlo Park city officials and event organizers have called it a charrette, a French term referring to design collaborations, which Facebook’s Director of Real Estate John Tenanes had compared to the social network’s famed all-night coding sessions called hackathons when he spoke at the company’s formal announcement of the move on January 31.

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