Last year at this time, a partnership between Google and Australia-based Lendlease was trumpeting plans to build not one, but four urban villages in the heart of Silicon Valley to serve as bedroom live/work/play communities for legions of tech workers.

Two of the four urban village mixed-use developments were planned for Mountain View, one was slated for San Jose and the other for Sunnyvale.

Cumulatively, the $15B worth of projects envisioned more than 15,000 new housing units and more than 15M SF of new office space, as well as hospitality and retail outlets, according to marketing info on the Lendlease website.

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