Overview

• Zuckerberg spent over $110 million across 14 years to assemble at least 11 adjoining Crescent Park homes into a single fortified estate.
• The compound includes guest pavilions, manicured gardens, a pickleball court, a hydrofloor pool that transforms into a dance floor, a seven-foot silver statue of Priscilla Chan and 7,000 sq ft of subterranean space dubbed the “bat cave.”
• Longtime residents report years of nonstop construction noise, blocked driveways and surveillance cameras pointing into private yards, with neighbors describing their street as “occupied.”
• One property operates a private school for 14 children in breach of Palo Alto zoning codes, a violation city officials have yet to address.
• Meta says the acquisitions support Zuckerberg’s work on U.S. technology policy, including a separate Washington, D.C., home purchase near the Naval Observatory to facilitate his engagement with policymakers.