Just because prominent technology companies, including Twitter, Amazon, Apple, and others, have announced plans to extend work from home policies into 2022 and beyond, it doesn't mean they aren't planning for a return to the office somewhere down the line. 

A case in point is Google, which continues to make significant investments in office projects around the country despite the doom-and-gloom predictions for office environments that shaped by media coverage in recent months. 

The internet giant, along with Amazon, is currently pushing ahead with new leases in New York City, for example, in addition to pursuing a collection of ground-up developments in the Bay Area. The company's new Mountain View headquarters, designed by Heatherwick Studio and BIG, is currently under construction. While an even larger and more ambitious new proposal crafted in collaboration with developer LendLease, SERA Architects, Hassell and Kristen Hall City Design was announced earlier this week. 

The proposed Middlefield Park Master Plan lays out a vision for a 1.33 million-square-foot mixed-use office and residential campus that includes 30,000 square feet of retail spaces, up to 1,850 housing units, and 20,000 square feet of civic and event spaces, all set in proximity to 12-acres of open spaces, CNBC reports.

The plan includes up to six large residential buildings that are slated to contain the project's 1,675 to 1,850 residential units, 20% of which, according to CNBC, Google aims to earmark as affordable housing. 

The plan is part of an effort undertaken by Google to fund the construction of up to 15,000 new residential units in the Bay Area.