“Apple Inc. and the city of San Jose are working toward a development agreement that would allow the Cupertino-based juggernaut to build a north San Jose campus of up to 4.15 million square feet, according to city records — an amount larger than Apple’s ‘spaceship’ campus under construction in Cupertino,” Nathan Donato-Weinstein reports for Silicon Valley Business Journal.
“The draft agreement, which is not yet completed, will come before the city’s Planning Commission later this month, officials said. It would lock in development rights — and expectations for both sides — for the next 15 years in an area that sprawls across 86 acres north of Highway 101 across from the Mineta San Jose International Airport,” Donato-Weinstein reports. “The percolating deal comes after Apple burst onto the north San Jose real estate scene this year in a series of high-profile leases and sales that included existing buildings and bare land. The work toward a development agreement is significant, as it shows Apple is working swiftly — and not piecemeal — to develop the site.”
Weinstein reports, “To be sure, a development agreement is not an actual project, and does not guarantee all of that space will get built. Apple hasn’t said what it is eyeing the sites for, and it has not yet submitted a formal development proposal… Also unclear: Exactly what types of buildings Apple might build on the land. Some real estate observers believe Apple might be interested in doing manufacturing there, perhaps for its emerging automotive interests. The agreement gives little away, describing ‘industrial development, including office, research and development, manufacturing and other related and supporting uses’ consistent with the city’s land-use plans.”
Much more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: That’s a helluva lot of space; for something big, as in “Project Titan” big?
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Sounds like a car factory location
Agreed. Wouldn’t that be terrific? No additional feeding of cash to communist China: Criminal Nation.
If you believe that China is still communist, you’re not paying attention. They took a sharp turn away from the full-retard central planning path when Deng Hsiao-Ping was in charge. That’s why their middle class outnumbers the US population today.
-jcr
Yes, they even have the freedom to have up to TWO kids now!!!
John C. Randolph, it is YOU to whom I must not pay attention. Get along now.
Wouldn’t we all like to know what Apple is up to? I don’t know where they are going with this, but I feel safe to predict, “We ain’t seen nothin’ yet!”
Intriguing for sure. Couldn’t they just be investing in real estate for the sake of selling in the future? I mean, this really tells us nothing.
In all fairness, a real comparison to the 4 million square feet is hard to make since the Spaceship was built in round feet….
You told a funny joke!
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More wine than whine tonight for me.
I must say, you’re extremely funny for a political conservative — which types don’t usually reach for the absurd and seem to be sustained frowners. 🙁
I was sworn to secrecy to never reveal our true humor….but I’m a rebel.
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Noooo they came first. They try to temp me.
And do you ALWAYS claim the other came first….?
This is where you and I differ. It’s not like I look for beautiful women. They are simply attracted to me. (I see where your mind is)
I’m pretty sure it’s just the ring.
Explains a lot. Thought it was just me. 🙁
No! You miss stuff. I’m checking out the 4 things you should never buy at Trader Joe’s. There’s also a rather meaty chick here named Amber Rose who goes both ways. Looks like she’d be fun to wrestle.
What if they never move into the Space Ship campus… It’s already too small for their needs? Just thinking.
All of these new campuses will be connected by secret underground maglev concealing APPLE CITY OF THE FUTURE. Completion date: Before the apocalypse.
Well, then hopefully it is near complete….;-)
Maybe they secretly discovered a massive lithium deposit under that property.
or unobtainium?
Admantium for truly sturdy phones… 😉
If it’s found under San Jose, you’ll end up spelling it as unobtainum, but Jony Ive will still pronounce it correctly.
let’s get some PE market valuation correlation to all this new space as we know lot os $$$ came out of the old space.
Would be nice with all the engineers that apple is hireing if they could design and build all their animation robots so they could skip buying them from Sweden or Germany. I also don’t see why they couldn’t
Print and design their own. Backplane inverter driver for.the motor as it is not that complicated. Im sure that Steve Wozniak could help them design a nice simple inverter for the.motor.
4.1 million square feet equals roughly 94 acres, or 122 football fields. That’s a lot a space to create around. It puts me in the mind of injection molded cars as seen in the movie Minority Report.
To put this in perspective, the Ford River Rouge Plant in Detroit was built 100 years ago to make the venerable model T. And it was four times larger.
“The Rouge measures 1.5 miles (2.4 km) wide by 1 mile (1.6 km) long, including 93 buildings with nearly 16 million square feet (1.5 km²) of factory floor space. With its own docks in the dredged Rouge River, 100 miles (160 km) of interior railroad track, its own electricity plant, and integrated steel mill, the titanic Rouge was able to turn raw materials into running vehicles within this single complex, a prime example of vertical-integration production. Over 100,000 workers were employed there in the 1930s.” – Wikipedia
Vertical-integration. Sounds like Apple!
Looks like Apple is getting ready for the Forbin project.
Just two words, Earthquake zone. can you buy insurance for that.. I know about the earthquake proof buildings, but if the Richter scale number is high enough, is anything safe ?