Google is close to paying ~ billion for the building it’s currently renting in the Chelsea neighborhood of New York City, the New York Post reports.

 

(We toured the office last year, camera in tow, click here to check out Google’s New York offices.)

The Chelsea building is one of the biggest in the city, covering an entire city block between 8th and 9th avenue and 15th and 16th streets. It is 2.9 million square feet large. Google occupies around 550,000 square feet of the building today.

Google would be paying 0 per square foot, which