Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is renovating a $10 million "fortress" in San Francisco, and though he can't buy the street outside of it, he still found a way to stake his claim.
Zuckerberg is allegedly paying people to sit in cars overnight on the street in Dolores Heights, where his 6-bedroom home has been under construction for 17 months, so that construction crews will have more room to park when they arrive in the morning. While a notice was passed out to neighbors that said four to five parking spaces would be taken up for construction purposes, Trafton Bean, a neighbor, noticed an influx of people sitting in cars on the street for weeks. One of Bean's roommates asked some who they were, and they later responded that they were hired by Zuckerberg to save parking spaces outside the limit that was mentioned in the notice to neighbors. CBS says that some of the workers appeared to be college-aged, and that when they were confronted in their cars, a few had textbooks with them and were studying.
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Neighbors have already complained about excessive noise due to construction, and the collection of closed-circuit security cameras that have been placed on the property. “It’s like a super intense eye in the sky — as if you’re inside a bank,” Bean said.
They have a long wait ahead of them until Zuckerberg moves in: construction won't be done until spring 2015.
