YAHOO! CELEBRATES EXPANSION IN BURBANK.Byline: Jason Kandel More than 100 Yahoo! employees, and city officials and business leaders celebrated on Nov. 1 the completion of Yahoo's move to Burbank. More than 1,000 Yahoo! employees have moved to the Burbank area from offices in Pasadena. ``We're very excited to move to Burbank,'' said Gaude Lydia Paez, the director of communications Director of Communications is a position in the private and public sectors. The Director of Communications is responsible for managing and directing an organization's internal and external communications. for Yahoo! ``Our employees are just thrilled with the new campus, the surrounding amenities and warm welcome we've received from the city. We're looking forward to becoming a deeper part of this community for many years to come.'' The ribbon-cutting event included Vice Mayor Marsha Ramos, Burbank Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Gary Olson, chamber members Jack Lynch and Scott McGookin, City Manager Mary Alvord, Fire Chief Tracy Pansini, and Community Development Director Sue Georgino, among others. City officials were treated to a champagne toast, lunch, cake and a tour of the more than 350,000 square feet of new office space in Burbank's Media Studios North business park off Empire Avenue. The complex includes a large cafeteria cafeteria: see restaurant. , gym, and a full-service coffee bar. The company said it outgrew out·grew v. Past tense of outgrow. its 117,000-square-foot facility in Pasadena. ``We're continuing to grow,'' said Paez, who added that Yahoo! officials settled on Burbank because it offered more space with a campus- like setting, nearby shops and restaurants, and public transportation. ``This is the first time we're able to have our full employee group together in one place since we outgrew our place in Pasadena more than a year ago,'' Paez said. Burbank welcomed the arrival, saying Yahoo! will bolster the work force in a bustling bus·tle 1 intr. & tr.v. bus·tled, bus·tling, bus·tles To move or cause to move energetically and busily. n. Excited and often noisy activity; a stir. business district. The city even created a new bus line that will help ferry workers between the Metro Red Line's North Hollywood station to the doors of their offices a Media Studios North. Founded in 1994, Yahoo! Inc., is headquartered in Sunnyvale. It was the first online navigational guide to the Web. Yahoo! has offices in Europe, Asia, Latin America Latin America, the Spanish-speaking, Portuguese-speaking, and French-speaking countries (except Canada) of North America, South America, Central America, and the West Indies. , Australia, Canada and the United States The United States and Canada share a unique legal relationship. U.S. law looks northward with a mixture of optimism and cooperation, viewing Canada as an integral part of U.S. economic and environmental policy. . CAPTION(S): 3 photos Photo: (1) Greg Sly, director of Search Operations Center The facility or location on an installation, base, or facility used by the commander to command, control, and coordinate all crisis activities. See also base defense operations center; command center. for Yahoo! explains a room full of live statistics on screens to Burbank city officials after a ribbon-cutting in Burbank. (2 -- 3) Vice Mayor Marsha Ramos, center, and Yahoo! Senior Vice President Jeff Weiner, second from right, cut the ribbon during a grand-opening ceremony for Yahoo! Search Marketing See Overture. Division's new home in Burbank. Yahoo! senior vice president Jeff Weiner, below, in the lobby of the Yahoo! Search Marketing Division. John Lazar/Daily News |
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