MOUNTAIN VIEW — Google has bought a Mountain View building near two of the tech titan’s iconic office hubs in a deal that gives the company ownership of a building it was already occupying.
The search giant paid $32.8 million for an office building about a block from the company’s Google Gradient Canopy building and a few blocks from the Googleplex headquarters campus, documents filed on Dec. 18 with the Santa Clara County Recorder’s Office show.
Google has frequently bought properties, large and small, primarily in Mountain View, Sunnyvale, North San Jose, and downtown San Jose over a period of several years…