Meta's headquarters campus at 1 Hacker Way is the largest single employer in Menlo Park and a significant presence in the city's economy and character. The campus houses several thousand employees and is not open to the public, but it is visible from Willow Road and has become a landmark on the Silicon Valley circuit that technology tourists make. The campus design, by Frank Gehry, is notable for its scale and its rooftop park, which sits above the vast open-plan workspace below.
The neighbourhood around the campus — Belle Haven — is a working-class community that has been increasingly affected by the influx of tech workers and the rising housing costs that followed. The tension between the extraordinary wealth generated at the campus and the economic reality of its immediate neighbourhood is one of the defining stories of modern Silicon Valley. The Menlo Park city government has negotiated various community benefits agreements with Meta over successive campus expansions.