Facebook may soon be taking up a lot more space in Los Angeles. The company is going to be gobbling up 35,000 square feet at Playa Vista’s Playa Jefferson — leaving behind a smaller space at the Campus at Playa Vista to make the move, The Real Deal hears. The space isn’t ready for our media overlords quite yet, but they should be in by the summer at the latest.

Some images of the complex from Playa Jefferson’s site give a glimpse at what Facebook’s future digs might be like.

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Snapchat has already laid to claim to plenty of space on Abbot Kinney and right near the beach as it expands and expands in Venice, but one thing it doesn’t have is a $25,000-a-month, one-bedroom beachfront penthouse with a jacuzzi and a geodesic dome. Oh, wait, no — it’s got that too now. BuzzFeed reports that Snapchat has signed a five-year lease that began in the middle of September for a rooftop apartment that’s already notorious for its rowdy tech parties. Unfortunately, as part of their lease, Snapchat had to agree not to use the place for similarly wild festivities.

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