Google paid $1 billion to buy a 52-acre office park a few blocks from its Googleplex headquarters (GOOG)

Google paid $1 billion to buy a large business park near its Mountain View, California headquarters, according to a Mercury News report on Monday. 
The business park Google will acquire in the deal is larger than its "Googleplex" headquarters located just a few blocks away. 
The $1 billion purchase is the largest Bay Area real estate deal in 2018 and second largest in the US only to Google's $2.4 acquisition of Chelsea Market in Manhattan. 
Google's newest land acquisition, known