In Silicon Valley they want to build an office park with a unique roof greening

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The company recently bought a supermarket Vallco Shopping Mall with all its territory, located in Cupertino (Silicon Valley), объявила Project conversion mall worth $ 3 billion. project involves the creation of the world's largest residential park with technology озеленения roofs (green roof). On the territory will accommodate a new store, homes and offices.

Residential and office space, crossed the park area, located on the territory of 120,000 m ^{2 sup>. The greens will be present everywhere, from the streets of the area and finishing the roofs of all the buildings. The Mall is not far from the campus of Apple, and empty since the 2008 recession. Developers expect to pay 58,000 m ^{2 sup> for shopping and entertainment, and almost 200,000 m ^{2 sup> for offices, as well as place in the district of 800 apartments.

But the main attraction, of course, should be the park itself. He will start at ground level and then, through various bridges, and slopes gradually gets to the roofs of the buildings located within the park. The park can be found 6 km long jogging track, a vineyard, an orchard, and a zone where they will live in their natural habitat of animals and birds. All of these delights will be available for everyone.

Despite the uniqueness of the project and record the density of planting, local activists from the website Better Cupertino недовольны voiced draft . According to them, do not try to replace a good shopping center at the place of residence for individuals. In addition, they believe that local roads do not have the necessary bandwidth to workers every morning went to the offices, which are going to build on this site.

Source: geektimes.ru/post/262958/}}}