Expansion and growth are key indicators of a successful company.
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So it makes sense for the iPhone maker to build another spaceship-like campus in Sunnyvale.
Apple hasn’t even finished construction on its first spaceship-style campus, but it’s reportedly signed a lease on a second, according to the Silicon Valley Business Journal’s Nathan Donato-Weinstein.
Amazon is banning Google’s Chromecast and Apple TV from its store: Most observers saw the move as an attempt by the Seattle-based retailer to advance its stake in the increasingly competitive world of digital streaming and sell its own Fire TV set-top box and plug-in stick.
Thad been reported that Apple and the developer were in negotiations, but sources recently confirmed that deal has been completed. The agreement, which is believed to be a lease arrangement, would provide Apple with room for more than 3,000 employees. (That same website also features a quote from Walter Isaacson, Apple co-founder Steve Jobs’s biographer.)Construction of the Central and Wolfe campus was approved previous year and will see nine existing buildings razed in favor of a new structure.
Apple’s appetite for new office space is seemingly never-ending. But Landbank CEO Scott Jacobs bet that tech companies would be drawn to something different than the Valley’s usual building typology.
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There are several other images of the building in the Business Journal piece. Like the “Spaceship” campus, the new campus will be surrounded by park-like greenery and have buried parking for cars. Apple and Landbank Investments did not comment on the report.
