I was able to spend this afternoon at the new, beautiful and very “green” building that had been, up until today, only been known as Building 17. Residing on the North campus of eBay, San Jose, Building 17 was officially opened today by eBay CEO, John Donahoe, San Jose Mayor, Chuck Reed and President of PayPal, Scott Thompson (shown above, officially cutting the vine that opened the building).

800 separate naming suggestions were submitted by employees for consideration as the official name of Building 17. Ranging from the rather long but humorous, “Al Gore’s Love Child” to the baseball-centric “Green Monster.” However, the name that beat out all others was simply “Mint”.
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