Mark Zuckerberg has spent 14 years gobbling up his leafy Palo Alto neighborhood, according to a New York Times report detailing how the Meta CEO has purchased 11 properties for over $110 million to create his own personal fiefdom in Crescent Park. The piecemeal compound features a main residence, guest homes, manicured gardens, and a pickleball court ' even a pool with a movable hydrofloor that can turn the swimming area into a dance floor. The piece de resistance: a seven-foot statue of wife Priscilla Chan draped in flowing silver robes. Beneath his suburban stronghold lies 7,000 square feet of subterranean space that neighbors have dubbed 'the billionaire bat cave.' A private school for 14 children also operates in one of the homes ' a violation of city zoning codes that doesn't seem to bother city officials, report the Times. The whole operation has taken a toll on some longtime residents, who cite years of construction noise, blocked driveways, and surveillance cameras peering...
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