Google y Facebook at Venice Beach?

On June 2010 RESULTS.com signed an office lease in a complex at Abbot Kinney Blvd and California Av, Venice beach, which is one of the most trendy areas in Southern California. Few months later, Google signed a 100,000-square-foot office lease in a Venice complex, less than 10 blocks from ours.

After seeing this big moves Facebook decided to do something similar and according to Los Angeles Business Journal: “Facebook has quietly shopped for space and last week signed a letter of intent to lease several thousand square feet in an office complex developed by Tishman Speyer Properties in Playa Vista”. Playa vista it´s right after Venice Beach to the southeast, however on their website Facebook says Venice Beach to be a little cooler. Silicon Beach is how Los Angeles Business Journal called Santa Monica, Venice Beach, Playa del Rey and Playa Vista.

For the residents of Venice Beach, I´d like say that rent will start rising and traffic getting worse, just imagine the new aprox 700 hundred employees from Google coming to the area and the unconfirmed number of Facebookers.

It´s time to start looking for that old bike that you have in your storage or to start skateboarding, although check if you can renew your leases for a two or three years period before the wave of new techies approach our cost.

I´m glad that we are in a completely different business than Google and Facebook, but as them, it´s clear that RESULTS.com is moving their entire industry forward.

For those who are interested in reading how Facebook and Google are competing, this is what it has happend lately:

Facebook launched a super energy efficient data center trying to commoditized one of Google’s most important assets: its data centers.

Facebook created a data center 38% more energy efficient than the standard data center and cost 24% less, but what is best is that they specs are open and on open compute project.

Super exciting times to be in!