Kite flyers who travel to windy Shoreline Park in Mountain View, California, will soon notice the rise of the new Microsoft Corp Silicon Valley campus, if the San Francisco Chronicle’s real estate sources are to be believed. The Chronicle hears that, although the deal has yet to be signed, Microsoft is favoring the site near Shoreland Drive at the intersection of highways 85 and 101. The owners of the site, Cupertino-based development firm Berg & Berg, have recently won City planning permission to erect five buildings on the 32-acre site, for 484,000 square feet of office space. Aside from kite flying, the site has the added advantage of being very close to Microsoft’s arch rival Netscape Communications Corp. Meanwhile, AT&T Corp is set to formally open its new research facilities, the largest outside of New Jersey, in Menlo Park today, although it’s had 150 researchers working at the site for over a year.
