“About one year after construction on the first phase of Apple Park was originally scheduled to be finished, the city of Cupertino has finally granted Apple a series of temporary occupancy permits that allow employees to move into parts of the main building,” Chris O’Brien writes for VentureBeat.
“According to a spreadsheet compiled by Cupertino building official Albert Salvador, Apple received temporary occupancy permits on December 30 for five of the 12 sections of the massive circular structure,” O’Brien writes. “The company had actually received a previous temporary occupancy permit back in July for one section of the headquarters that contains the restaurant and atrium.”
“It appears Apple is on track to receive temporary occupancy permits for all the other sections between the end of January and March, at the latest, according to the spreadsheet dated January 17,” O’Brien writes. “Last February, when Apple announced that the name of the new campus would be Apple Park, the company also said the new headquarters would be “open to employees” in April 2017. That proved to be overly optimistic.”
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MacDailyNews Take: It’ll be a great day for Apple and Apple product users when everyone is moved into Apple Park and settled!
…settled and back to work on MAGA (Making Apple Great Again!)!
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uh, why do they need the city’s permission to occupy their own property?
Because it’s not their own property. It’s the property of millions of shareholders. It’s located in a town that needs to account for traffic flows, possible hazards, etc. It’s also somewhat hazardous since it’s still under construction, which causes a lot of liability issues for numerous parties.
What are you, 15?
you’re an idiot…the city of Cupertino isn’t “the shareholders.”
True, but the city approved the structure to be built and has to ensure that it meets all safety protocols, etc. before occupation. It’s how we, the people, have decided to have the system work. In the large scale of things, it’s designed with the public in mind… and it’s not a big deal.
The city has to sign off on buildings that are in its jurisdiction. Why are you surprised by this?
My company finished a new building six months ago and we could only get partial temporary occupancy until all of the interior work was done and the building inspectors gave the okay. It’s a real pain but that’s the way it works in many places.
To occupy any new building, the building department has to sign off that all the health, safety, and building code minimums have be met. Of course the City has little if any liability if anything goes wrong, but it does give them an excuse for all the fees they collect.
Symbolic of Apple that the company would claim in Feb that they would start moving in in April and yet to all intents and purposes have taken 4 times to actually take place. They live on a time line exclusive to their use clearly.
Said another way: The City of Cupertino does NOT have enough building inspectors even though they’ve known about this building for a decade and they will collect millions upon millions in taxes. Does Apple get a tax break if they can’t occupy a 5 billion dollar building if the city delays in granting an occupancy permit due to the mismanagement of building inspector resources?
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I will make my pilgrimage to the Apple Park to purchase venerated objects at the hollowed store
Let’s hope the new “settled” don’t become complacent “settlers” in moving forward. We’ve been waiting a long time for the other loud shoe to drop and Apple really get the drop on it’s competitors as well as running on all cylinders on all the devices under their purview & control.
You Americans sure have an odd way of working. 😄😄