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Apple Plans Second Major Cupertino Campus

Apple Plans Second Major Cupertino Campus

by , 4:10 PM EDT, April 19th, 2006

At a Tuesday evening Cupertino city council meeting, Apple CEO Steve Jobs revealed that the company is planning a new 50-acre campus near its current headquarters at Infinite Loop. He told council members: "What's happened at Apple is that our business has basically tripled in the last five or six years. What that's meant is our headcount has greatly expanded. We have a great campus by [route] 280, but we are in 30 other buildings now."

He continued: "We've rented every scrap of building we can find in Cupertino and our people keep getting further and further away from the campus." Mr. Jobs noted that the company originally looked outside of Cupertino when it started the process months ago, given the high cost of real estate in the area, "but we found something in Cupertino that was a possibility."

He said that the company purchased nine properties not far from the Infinite Loop campus and across from a 100-acre Hewlett-Packard parcel. "Our plan is to take down the existing buildings and put up more efficient structures," he explained. He added that Apple has not started designing the new campus yet, so it will take three or four years before it's completed. He expects somewhere between 3,000 and 3.500 employees will work there.

"We're pretty thrilled," Mr. Jobs concluded. "Since we're your largest taxpayer, I thought you might be happy for us." City council members laughed at the comment and congratulated the Apple CEO on the company's acquisition, as well as its recent success.

A Webcast of the meeting is available at the City of Cupertino Web site.

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Close Name:Small White Car Posts: 1960 Joined: 02 Jul 2004
Subject: Good News

Looking at statistics and analyst predictions can be pretty dry stuff. It's nice to see a real simple "real world" exmample of how well Apple is doing these days.

Close Name:macinnerd Posts: 1748 Joined: 15 Jun 2005
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What he said.

It's nice to get some good old news every now and then.

Close Name:Rainy Day Posts: 607 Joined: 07 Jun 2005
Subject: MCI Data Center location

I think the new area is at 10400 Ridgeview Ct., Cupertino, where Apple’s sublease from IBM in February is located.

Edit: Just listened to Jobs speak to the Cupertino City Council. It is the same area.



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Close Name:Guest
Subject: New Campus

10400 Rigeview Ct. just doesn't have the same ring to it as 'Infinite Loop'. I hope they, as the largest taxpayer in the city, can get a creative & witty address for their new campus as well.

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