Is 20,000 correct? Sounds kind of low for this kind of facility.

According to the linked article it is $20 MILLION.

Yeah, I'm thinking, I live in San Francisco, and for $20,000 I might be able to buy a 1 square inch house. Forget an 80,000 square foot high-tech building....

I think we're all missing the most exciting part about this. It's being built in San Francisco! As I recall, the home of the United Federation of Planets! Maybe this think tank is just the beginning. Anyone care to take a crack at comparing this structure to the architecture we've seen before from the UFP. Maybe we've got some Star Trek fans in the United Nations!

Or maybe it's actually the Romulons...

The biggest obstacle to world government is the fascists who want it.

They're corrupt, simple-minded and they hate the common people.

It is always the Romulans.

We've got a Romulan weather guy here in Lansing, Michigan.

Frackin Romulans!

from the article: "All told, the project is expected to generate over 10,000 permanent new jobs and more than 2,000 construction jobs per year for over 15 years."

holy crap!
It's taking 2000 people 15 years to build this!!!!!

@Democratsarefacsists

You obviously don't know the idea behind a world government.

@Murc

Look on the bright side! 2,000 jobs a year for 15 years is 30,000! Plus that other 10,000 makes 40,000!

As a lot of you pointed out, the construction budget is $20 mil, not $20k.

@JSCram3254
Thanks for running with that. :)

It IS the UFP headquarters! $20M is low, too. It will end up being $100M and be destroyed in a quake. World government is inevitable, following world communication and world travel. It will be an organic process, slowed and marred by intervention by stupid humans, who believe that their destiny may be rough-hewn into a better shape, which is usually the process of adding corrosion and crud to the final product. We are a stunningly stupid people, and many believe we should end our miseries here on Earth before infecting the rest of the universe.

Well, Brass Orchid, with any luck, once the Large Hard-on Collider magnets are up to snuff, you, and people of your ilk, just might get what you want.

Step One - Clean all that gunk up.
Step Two - Build a structure
Step Three - Profit

The U.N. was a good idea, but it is ineffective for global policy and full of corruption.

- With great power comes great corruption

Nice building btw...

My Ilk? You flatter me. My theory is that we should get off this rock as quickly as possible before we realize with swift certainty that planets are dirty, dangerous and unstable.

Neotyguy said : "Look on the bright side! 2,000 jobs a year for 15 years is 30,000! Plus that other 10,000 makes 40,000!"

ummm, no.

you dont multiply the numbers...because then it wouldn't make any sense.

and I agree with "Giggity" that the UN is FULL of corruption, they dont deserve such a nice building.

I'm waiting for the day that the US pulls out of the UN...that would be a great day.

and who's going to flip the bill this?

Think on that one before you get too excited.

Great looking building, total BS reason for spending $20 million.

Wow.. looks more like an early 60's Casino/Motel. I guess they meant the Original Star Trek Federation.

Cheesy building, looks like it came out of Disney's "Future World of 1978".

Isn't California almost bankrupt??? Who IS going to pay for this giant behemoth of a building? Hopefully our.....snicker......"great " president won't shell out more of our money on this. Oh wait, were only on the edge of bankruptcy, not over the edge yet so spend away "oh mighty president"......LMAO!!!!

Oops, I forgot to say nice choice on locations though, on an old shipyard that is, that was built before we thought about the damage that was being done to our planet & people.

Don't forget about the fault lines, ya might wanna make it 9.0 resistant....oh thats right, we Americans have sold our durability, longevity, & work ethics to "other" countries to make stuff cheaper. Does this mean we are going to start building buildings that will be replaced every 5 years or so when the warranty runs out? like everything else....if it even makes it to the end of the warranty.

You're all wrong...it isn't "democrat fascists" or the Romulins or even the world power people......it's the Borg and they are already here! They will not be compromised and we will all be assimilated!

Seriously, the building gorgeous. About time they cleaned that gunky pollution up!

Me think it is of Klingon Design

It looks like a building I saw in a Star Trek movie. United Federation of Planets building I guess.

For 80,000 square feet $20 million dollars is not even close to enough. Try a few hundred million.

Will it be earthquake-proof?

This is great. Not like the world has any problems. After all the great work the UN has done is Rwanda, Zimbabwe, the Middle East and Eastern Europe all those swell guys really deserve it. It's a splendid waste of money. You know what I think is hilarious. How about instead of a think tank they build an action tank? Or stop building entirely and start working?

How about taking all those millions of dollars and investing it in peacekeeping missions, schools in Africa and building infrastructure in developing or war torn countries? Am I the only one who thinks it's ridiculous to spend all this money so a bunch of people who really don't give a rats ass about the world can sit in their 20 million (probably WAY more) building and figure out how to get a million dollars together for aid?

@democratsarefacist...

You are obviously Lush Rimjob, errr, Rush Limbaugh, so anything you say is ignored by all intelligent beings on the planet. :)

Incidentally, the regressive Republocrites are the traditional Nazis, not the progressive Democrats and Independents.

So, line up like a good little Republocrite and mimic what everyone tells you to say. HEIL!

You Republocrites really need to figure out how you want to be, LOL!

Cool building, but 15 years seems mighty lengthy to build that structure.

@Mikie ...

You're turning out to be a good little drone, aren't you?