Facebook is developing its own city near Silicon Valley HQ

Mark Zuckerberg's social network, which has 2.9 billion users, is now planning to build a real life community called Willow Park on a 59-acre site in Menlo Park, California. Pictured above is a rendering from the plans

The plans for the new city feature feature 1,729 apartments, a supermarket, pharmacy, cafes and restaurants and a 193-room hotel, as well as multiple park public parks and Facebook office space

It will be built where a single-use industrial and warehouse complex currently stands on a 59-acre site adjacent to Facebook's headquarters in Menlo Park, California. Facebook already owns several of the existing buildings on the site

There will also be a four-acre public park, a two-acre elevated park similar to New York City's High Line and other public open spaces

Recent renderings show a mostly modernist design for the city, which includes a large glass dome (pictured on right) building specifically for Facebook employees

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