# YouTube Headquarters

San Bruno, CA · office-park · tier: draft · Retrofit Atlas record `n-58089ed8a1` · release 2026-10-21

Canonical: https://retrofitatlas.org/office-parks/ca/san-bruno-youtube-headquarters/  
JSON: https://retrofitatlas.org/data/records/n-58089ed8a1.json · Provenance: https://retrofitatlas.org/data/records/n-58089ed8a1.provenance.json · API: https://retrofitatlas.org/api/v1/sites/n-58089ed8a1

## Facts

| Field | Value | Provenance |
|---|---|---|
| Status | built | reported · model extraction, unreviewed |
| Strategy | reinhabit | none |
| New use | office | none |
| What is there now | Expanded YouTube headquarters | reported · model extraction, unreviewed |
| Retrofit year | 2016 | reported · model extraction, unreviewed |
| GLA (sq ft) | 554000 | reported · model extraction, unreviewed |

## Timeline

- 2016: YouTube purchased an office park to expand its headquarters.
- 2016: Retrofit: reinhabit

## Deals and debt

- 2016 sale: 215000000.0 YouTube   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube

## Background (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0, shortened)

YouTube  is an American online video-sharing platform owned by Google. YouTube was founded on February 14, 2005, by Chad Hurley, Jawed Karim, and Steve Chen, all of whom were former employees at PayPal. Headquartered in San Bruno, California, it is the second-most-visited website in the world, after Google itself. In January 2024, YouTube had reached more than 2.7 billion monthly active users, who collectively watched more than one billion hours of video every day.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube

## Sources

- YouTube — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube

## Cite

Retrofit Atlas (2026). "YouTube Headquarters, San Bruno, CA." Record n-58089ed8a1, release 2026-10-21, tier draft. https://retrofitatlas.org/office-parks/ca/san-bruno-youtube-headquarters/ (accessed 2026-10-21).

```bibtex
@misc{retrofitatlas_sanbrunoyoutubeheadquarters,
  title = {YouTube Headquarters, San Bruno, CA},
  author = {{Retrofit Atlas}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://retrofitatlas.org/office-parks/ca/san-bruno-youtube-headquarters/}},
  year = {2026},
  note = {Record n-58089ed8a1, release 2026-10-21, tier: draft. Built on the Retrofitting Suburbia map (Dunham-Jones and Williamson) and the sources listed on the record. Accessed 2026-10-21}
}
```

Licence: research use only; terms undecided with the authors (https://retrofitatlas.org/licence/). Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0. Tiers: curated = from the authors' public map, not reviewed by them; draft = imported or model-extracted, unreviewed.