“Apple Inc. Chief Executive Steve Jobs is still out on medical leave, but the demolition of the mansion he reviles in the hamlet of Woodside, Calif., is expected to start soon,” Therese Poletti reports for MarketWatch. “This small town, one of Silicon Valley’s wealthiest enclaves, is giving the Apple Inc. executive his long sought-after permit to raze his Spanish Colonial revival mansion, a subject of great debate. Jobs has been seeking to demolish the long-empty 17,000 square-foot house for at least a decade.”
MacDailyNews Take: California.
Poletti continues, “[The news] may be of interest to investors, or at least Apple fans, who pounce on any tidbits about the company and its co-founder. With Jobs out on medical leave without a specific timetable to return, any word on his future plans are of interest.”
“Before demolition begins, pests have to be eliminated from the property, now in seriously dilapidated condition, thanks to what preservationists say was Jobs’s ‘demolition by neglect,'” Poletti reports. “He bought the house in 1983 and lived in it for about 10 years. But it has been mostly empty since then.”
MacDailyNews Take: Cue PETA and another decade of dicking around. The dump will be razed only when the Sun becomes a red giant.
Poletti continues, “In a rare public statement about the house at a Woodside Town Council meeting in 2005, Jobs said he bought the house with the intention of tearing it down, calling it ‘poorly built.’ ‘It was never really a very interesting house to start with,’ he told the council. ‘I think I could build something far, far nicer and far more historically interesting down the road.'”
Read more in the full article here.
More hard hitting journalism from Poletti at Marketwatch. I’ve seen MDN commenters who are more insightful and accurate than she is.
‘I think I could build something far, far nicer and far more historically interesting down the road.’
Yes. He can!
“Before demolition begins, pests have to be eliminated from the property…”
SHOO MUCK REPORTERS SHOO!!!! Filthy maggots.
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Count down to Caterpillar diesel engagement. Listen as the clacking of tracks from some seriously heavy metal reaches out and smacks down some old status symbol! Hey, that sounds familiar.
Watch out Microsoft, HTC, Nokia, and Rim Jobs just may send his crew over to build some quality out of those delapitated building you work out of!!!
At least he is creating more jobs!
We should never, ever forget the first law of nature ” THE ONLY CONSTANT IS CHANGE” !!! In other words “Nothing stands still”…
Let’s hope that Steve’s health will overcome and allow Steve to enjoy a new bright home…
I should have bought it when I had the chance, but the wife complained about the cost of renovation.
Apparently Steve Jobs plans to go on living.
Architectural experts do not consider the old house to have historical importance, and in fact it is was a horror even when new. I’m guessing the owners fancied themselves qualified to dictate design.
The concept of preservation is neither liberal nor progressive. To conserve is not non-conservative. It is the patrician pashas of posh and exclusive Woodside that have blocked the razing of the house.
That said, the Jackling house is butt ugly. It is historic only because it was designed by the architect who initiated the quasi-Spanishoid McMansionesque style that so many seem to like. The architect’s memory would be better served by deleting this epic fail.
Mr. Jobs, tear down this house!
Oh, and get well soon.
A hundred years from, any house associated with SJ will be of historic interest.
Blame those commie counsellors in Woodside CA. Bunch of left leaning commies intent on preserving shit-o houses that blight the landscape. Yes, I’m looking a you, Jerry Brown!
@qka
Right!
Even the demolisher should keep some peaces of the actual house. Later, his kids and/or grandkids will make a fortune selling them!
Ah, so maybe the story will come true. Steve will do it personally.
http://bit.ly/b4IweH
jl
thanks for the link. Funny stuff.
Steve Jobs’ House Daily News
There are outhouses in New England older than that dump. Historic, what a joke, just because it is old doesn’t make it historic. I know, I know…but some guy designed it..who cares, tear it down and build something better. I am pretty sure Steve will build something way better and guess what…I am pretty sure it WILL BE way more historic. Steve Jobs is the greatest visionary of our era and history is going to cast a very favorable light on him.
There’s an app for that!
” far more historically interesting down the road”
He’s got this right –
Ah damn! jl beat me to it in his post above mine…
Credit where credit is due…
MDN,
You make fun of California but yet Steve Jobs, that you praise, is from California and Apple resides there.
In addition, many tech companies who have innovated the technology sector come from California.
Besides, Microsoft, the company you bash the most, is not in
California.
Stop being a hypocrit, and thank California for their contribution (Steve Jobs and Apple) or STFU!
@ Ballmer’s Left Nut?!
Commies? Really? Have you ever visited California?
There is a world besides your trailer in your trailer park located in uneducated hick-town… You should definitely get the “ignorant” award of the year with your dumb@$$ comments!
P.S. Dumbsh!t, Steve Jobs is a liberal and use to be a hippie… What’s your response? “DAHHHH???!!” That is probably the smartest thing you have ever said.
Let me just say I hope he (SJ) is doing well and comes back healthier then ever. But If by chance that he doesn’t, I just hope in his will he requires that the POS stays exactly the way it is for eternity. So those freak’n asshats that pushed for all those demands can look at it the rest of their sorry lives. They wanted it, they can have it to stare at for several generations. Matter of fact, if i had his money, I would send a pack of lawyer to hassle and sue all those people/groups the rest of their lives for waisting ten years or more of my life. Let’s see how they feel when the fight comes to them. Dicks!
If he wanted to destroy it for 10 years but still stayed he likes it there and could as well renovate it, rebuild or add to it. It seems to be an historic building. Sad.
Karlv,
And who the hell are you to tell SJ what he can do with the house he bought? He can renovate the wonderful piece of land after that horrible monstrosity of a “house” is removed from it, hopefully in several million pieces.
The sad thing is asshats like you have kept Jobs from being able to do this for more than 10 years, and given Job’s health he might not have very many years left to enjoy his creation.
Steve Jobs has contributed life changing innovation to the world and simply wants to be able to enjoy his house in peace and privacy. What exactly have *you* contributed to humanity that you think you have to add your precious 2c in here?
Igads, They wanted it, they can have it to stare at for several generations. Matter of fact, if i had his money, I would send a pack of lawyer to hassle and sue all those people/groups the rest of their lives for waisting ten years or more of my life.
I’m reminded of how Julius Caesar set up his will in preparation for his death, knowing that the Roman Senate was plotting against him. And how Caesar left in his will money to pay for the city of Rome to take a whole month off to mourn his death, which lead to those that killed Caesar becoming extremely unpopular with all of Rome! None were alive one year later.