US EditionPalo Alto Neighbors Reportedly Miffed at Zuckerberg’s Crescent Park Compound
The $110 million compound includes 11 properties with luxury amenities and a private school violating zoning codes, spanning 14 years of acquisitions, report says.
- Mark Zuckerberg has spent over $110 million since 2011 acquiring at least 11 houses in Palo Alto's Crescent Park to form a compound.
- Zuckerberg withdrew his 2016 application to build a compound after a city board rejected it, but continued expanding gradually via permits.
- Neighbors report eight years of disruptive construction, intense surveillance with cameras covering neighbors' property, and broken promises on parking and home demolitions.
- Neighbor Michael Kieschnick said, "No neighborhood wants to be occupied," criticizing Zuckerberg for using loopholes and forcing families to leave.
- The situation suggests ongoing community tension, with neighbors feeling city officials favor Zuckerberg, despite a private school operating in violation of zoning codes.
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What happened when Zuckerberg moved in next door
PALO ALTO, Calif. — For decades, the Crescent Park neighborhood of Palo Alto represented the dream of California living. Doctors, lawyers, business executives and Stanford University professors lived in charming homes under oak, redwood and magnolia trees. The houses, an eclectic mix including Craftsman homes and bungalows, were filled with families who became fast friends. The annual block parties heaved with people. Daily life was tranquil, a…
Mark Zuckerberg’s Neighbors Upset with His $110M Takeover of Their Neighborhood, Purchasing 11 Homes in 14 Years
The Meta CEO first moved into the Crescent Park neighborhood in Palo Alto, Calif., in 2011Taylor Hill/FilmMagic;Noah Berger/Bloomberg/Getty L: Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan; R: Zuckerberg's Palo Alto homeNEED TO KNOWMark Zuckerberg's neighbors are not happy with his takeover of the Crescent Park neighborhood in Palo Alto, Calif.An Aug. 10 report by The New York Times found the Meta CEO, 41, spent more than $110 million on 11 homes since 20…
Mark Zuckerberg's Palo Alto Compound, With 'Bunkers,' Has Reportedly Been Under Constant Construction For 8 Years
Neighbors of the Chan-Zuckerbergs in Palo Alto's Crescent Park neighborhood say that the city and local police have basically bent over backwards to accommodate their local celebrity billionaire, at everyone else's expense.We're pretty well familiar with the real estate doings of the billionaire class around here. And Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been quite the gobbler of real estate both in the Bay Area and beyond in the decade plus since he jo…
Palo Alto neighbors reportedly miffed at Zuckerberg’s Crescent Park compound
(KRON) -- Mark Zuckerberg's neighbors, or at least the few that remain, are reportedly not happy. The billionaire Meta CEO has reportedly spent 14 years buying up homes in Palo Alto's leafy Crescent Park, turning the once charming neighborhood into what some have called a "compound," and other have characterized as an "occupation." According to the New York Times, Zuckerberg has turned the area around Edgewood Drive and Hamilton Avenue into his …
Zuckerberg’s compound angers neighbors; they say the city is giving him preferential treatment – Palo Alto Daily Post
The New York Times published a scathing story Sunday saying neighbors of billionaire Mark Zuckerberg are furious that he has forced them to endure years of construction, surveillance, noise, traffic blockages and a loss of street parking as assembled a compound of 11 homes in Palo Alto’s Crescent Park neighborhood. They say he has benefitted from preferential treatment from the city. And they say that even the police have blocked off streets to …
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