Microsoft parking structure will hold 5,000 vehicles

[Chris]

Microsoft is digging for a solution to the parking crunch on its growing Redmond campus.

The software giant is excavating a giant pit for an underground parking garage with the capacity for some 5,000 vehicles.

That's nearly as many spots as Bellevue Square boasts and would make it one of the largest underground parking structures in the United States.

It will cover the equivalent of six downtown city blocks and go four stories deep.

The underground garage, on the west side of Highway 520 near the Northeast 40th Street exit, is scheduled to be completed by mid-2008.

Microsoft now has nearly 29,000 parking spaces spread across its corporate campus, which straddles 520 and is growing on both sides — but particularly on the west side.

In 2006, the company announced a three-year plan to expand the campus by about one-third, or 3.1 million square feet, at a cost of roughly $1.3 billion.

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[catgate]

It seems odd for a company that champions the idea of net working and working from home. They must realise that it is basically a big impractical hoax in reality. Perhaps they should now invent Microparking.

[Spaz]

lol... so Im going to assume with that much money spent this parking lot is going to have some kind of wireless connection. There may be employee's or individual's who'll get tierd of walking and would like to work from below. Haha...

just a thought~ :)