“For a company that is celebrated for its stylish design, Apple Inc.’s expanded Central Texas campus on West Parmer Lane has a pretty utilitarian look about it, at least from the outside,” Kirk Ladendorf reports for The Austin American-Statesman. “The California-based computer company is building on a 39-acre site adjacent to its present Austin operations, which employ more than 3,000 people in its Americas Operations Center.”
“The Austin center is being built as Apple starts on its new headquarters complex in California, which has a celebrated circular ‘spaceship’ design,” Ladendorf reports. “The Austin center has a far less futuristic look, but it will have a walking trail around the complex.”
“The fast-growing electronics giant has had to give up some details about its Austin project in return for the the estimated $35 million in state and local tax incentives it will recent for the Austin expansion, which was known locally as ‘Project Hudson,'” Ladendorf reports. “The company has said it plans to spend $282 million on new buildings and equipment in Austin over the next decade. That is expected to include seven new office buildings with a combined 1 million or more square feet of space. Those buildings will house an estimated 3,600 new workers needed to support Apple’s continued growth. The average wage for those new jobs will be $54,000 a year in the first year of the expansion and will expand to $73,500 in year 10.”
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