This parking lot is where Googles new 600,000 square feet of office space will appear. What youre looking at is Terry Avenue on the right (which terminates at the Museum of History and Industry), and Mercer stretching leftward toward the Allen Institute for Brain Science (and Allens art-ish display place, Pivot).

This parking lot is where Google’s new 600,000 square feet of office space will appear. What you’re looking at is Terry Avenue on the right (which terminates at the Museum of History and Industry), and Mercer stretching leftward toward the Allen Institute for Brain Science (and Allen’s art-ish display place, Pivot). DQ

But South Lake Union is full, I thought when I heard this morning’s news that a few thousand Google employees were moving in. Where will they go?

So I asked my favorite South Lake Union-traversing human to take a photograph of the exact spot, just for you. And there it is, between Valley and Mercer right up against the Allen Institute for Brain Science and the Museum of History and Industry.

Jen Graves (The Stranger’s former arts critic) mostly writes about things you approach with your eyeballs. But she’s also a history nerd interested in anything that needs more talking about, from male...