Facebook’s Willow Village Plan Takes Shape in Menlo Park

Facebook pulled the wraps off the latest incarnation of Willow Village, the social media giant’s 59-acre mixed use development in Menlo Park, CA. The proposed development includes a mix of office, residential and retail uses.

The new campus is designed to accommodate an additional 9,500 workers. That would boost Facebook’s employee count to 35,000 east of Highway 101, once all the new facilities are built, nearly equal Menlo Park’s population of 35,670.

Willow Village is planned to be developed in four phases, with initial offices slated for occupancy by 2021 and the balance by 2025. The site on Bayfront Expressway and O’Brien is planned to include 1.75 million square feet of offices, a minimum of 1,500 housing units, 126,500 square feet of retail, 200 hotel rooms and 18 acres of open space. The project will also have roughly 5,300 parking spaces and a cultural/visitor center.

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Dennis Kaiser is Vice President of Public Relations and Communications for Connect Creative. Dennis is a communications leader with more than 40 years of experience including as a journalist and in corporate and agency marketing communications roles. He is responsible for Connect Creative’s agency client services and is involved in a range of initiatives ranging from public relations and content strategy, communications and message development, copywriting, media relations, social media and content marketing services. Prior to joining Connect Media in 2015, his most recent corporate communications roles involved leading a regional public relations effort across Southern California for CBRE, playing a key marketing role on JLL’s national retail team, and directing the global public relations effort at ValleyCrest (BrightView), the nation’s largest commercial landscape services company. He has worked on marketing communications assignments for such CRE companies as Blackstone/Equity Office, Carlyle, Caruso, Disney Resorts, GE Capital, Irvine Company, Hines, Howard Hughes Corp., Jeffries, Lennar, MGM, Marcus & Millichap, Prologis, Raleigh Studios, Simon, Starwood, Trammell Crow Company, Transamerica, UBS and Wynn Resorts. Dennis has also worked on communications and launch strategies for a number of consumer electronic, media and tech brands including SlingMedia, Channel Master, Deluxe Media Entertainment, BeIn Sports, EchoStar and Sprint. Dennis’s agency background included firms such as Off Madison Ave., Idea Hall and Macy + Associates. He has earned an outstanding reputation with organization leaders as a trusted advisor, strategic program implementer, consensus builder and exceptional collaborator. Dennis has developed and managed national communications programs for Fortune 500 companies to start-ups, both public and private. He’s successfully worked with journalists across the globe representing clients involved in major-breaking news stories, product launches, media tours, and company news announcements. Dennis has been involved in a host of charitable and community organizations including the American Cancer Society, Easter Seals, Boy Scouts, Chrysalis Foundation, Freedom For Life, HOLA, L.A.’s BEST, Reach Out and Read, Super Bowl Host Committee, and the Thunderbirds Charities.

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