Photos: Google's multimillion-dollar Austin offices include a dog park and food trailer in the sky

Google Inc. has offices all over the world, but it wants visitors and employees at its new downtown Austin regional hub to know exactly where they're standing: hundreds of feet off the ground in the Texas capital. There are rooms named after South by Southwest and other local festivals, as well as an entire floor dedicated to famous Austinites. Then there is the "greenbelt staircase," which connects all five floors and is punctuated with cascading waterfalls that use recycled condensation from the HVAC system. And there are the soaring, 360-degree views of Central Austin and beyond from nearly every corner of the space. The Mountain View-based tech giant showed off its new regional hub Tuesday inside the recently completed skyscraper, which sits just east of Austin's Shoal Creek and near the city's famed Lady Bird Lake. It has finished construction on the top five floors of the tower, packed with breath-taking architectural flare, the latest in workspace design trends and plenty of amenities to keep more than 450 workers engaged. Googlers in Austin work on teams including Android, G Suite, Google Play, people operations, finance, engineering and marketing. CTA Architects and Engineers was the designer for the tenant build-out and DPR Construction Co. was the general contractor. Google, a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc., has consolidated nearly all of its Austin-area workers in the skyscraper. It currently occupies floors 25 through 29 and will move into the 23rd and 24th floors in January. It also plans to occupy floors 20 through 22 at some point — it has leased 300,000 square feet in all on the top 10 floors. Google "has negotiated a very favorable lease" as the primary tenant in 500 West 2nd, said Kristin Chiles, an Austin-based real estate project executive for the company. Chiles said Google wanted to feed of downtown's energy — and be closer to mass-transit options. "We're more able to provide options for Googlers to get to work that you don't necessarily have when you're in the suburbs," Chiles said, though she was coy about any future real estate plans in the region. "It's hard to say what the future will hold," she said. Google was previously spread across multiple offices in Austin. Elsewhere in Austin, Google Fiber still has its own space at Second and Colorado streets and the company also leases space in a building off Parmer Lane in far North Austin that houses a separate business unit. Google has packed the skyscraper with cutting-edge design and amenities. It offers a wellness program that includes free massages. There are multiple cafeterias serving a rotating menu — including, in a nod to Austin's favorite dish, a daily taco variation. There is a coffee bar, an Airstream trailer that was lifted to the 28th floor to serve as a stationary food truck, and a dog park on the 29th floor called the Pine Patio. Those additions are expensive. Documents filed with the state in 2016 indicate a tenant build-out cost estimated at $20.2 million— for just the first 140,000 square feet. A further $9.5 million has been earmarked for the 23rd and 24th floors. The tower was designed by Gensler with Texas-based Trammell Crow, the same developer working with Google on a proposed 8 million square foot office project in downtown San Jose's Diridon Station area. Will Anderson coordinates digital coverage of business news and coverages a wide variety of topics, from consumer goods to health care. Technology Employers in Silicon Valley Ranked by Local employee headcount Business name Local employee headcount Apple Inc. 25,000 Alphabet Inc. 20,000 Cisco Systems Inc. 15,700 View This List Purchase CSV Related Content Sneak peek: SurveyMonkey's new home in Bay Meadows (photos) First look: LinkedIn's newly renovated Mountain View campus (photos) Home of the Day Sponsor Listing Dream-Like Country Club Estate See All Homes of the Day Industries Technology Commercial Real Estate Legal Services Topics Construction Cloud Computing