Bell Labs Holmdel Is Now Mainly a Food Court

[walrus01]

It's not mainly a food court, it's owned by a fairly typical commercial real estate investment group, and is divided into rentable office space.

https://bell.works/new-jersey/work/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_Labs_Holmdel_Complex

aerial view: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bell_Labs_Holmdel.jp...

[aj7]

You're reading the ads. I said mostly.

[ggm]

A Xerox Parc alumni told me the physical structure had massive influence on the dynamics of social interaction. it is not impossible Bell Labs, and MIT's Building 29 are examples of this too. I've never been to any of them. I know the common room of many university CS departments is where you get the low-down on whats really going on. Coffee helps.

[localcdn]

They call themselves a "metroburb", a related article on it: https://newcities.org/the-big-picture-increasing-allure-metr...

[person_of_color]

Doesn’t surprise me when you could double your salary simply moving to the west coast.

[cbradford]

The phrases "innovation", "tech hub" and "New Jersey"... I don't think so

[riffic]

Do you not realize what the significance of Bell Labs is?

edit: This site is an Eero Saarinen design as well, TIL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_Labs_Holmdel_Complex

[ardy42]

> The phrases "innovation", "tech hub" and "New Jersey"... I don't think so

Don't be so parochial. Who knows what the places you consider to be "tech hubs" now will be in 50 years.

I recently learned that Minnesota of all places used to be a "tech hub" during the mainframe era.

[coliveira]

New Jersey still is a tech hub, but for pharmaceutical technology.

[yowlingcat]

Don't let how easy it is to make fun of New Jersey distract you from how it's an enormous hub for lucrative pharma dollars.

[Sebguer]

What places do you consider to be tech hubs?

[david_dan]

Huh? The Transistor, Unix, Speech Recognition was all invented in NJ