“Amazon is still considering the Triangle for its huge HQ2 project, and downtown Raleigh is where the ecommerce giant is most likely to build what would be a massive complex if North Carolina’s capital is the winner, according to sources,” Rick Smith reports for WRAL TechWire. “Several of the same sources also note that an announcement of Apple’s selection for a new campus is ‘imminent.'”
“Winning the Apple project does not preclude the Triangle from being selected by Amazon, sources say,” Smith reports.
“A source said that a meeting between N.C. officials and Apple ‘went much better than anyone expected,'” Smith reports. “The Triangle and North Carolina are likely candidates for an Apple expansion plan that would involve a new office complex in and around the southern portion of Research Triangle Park with an initial operation being established in Cary, sources have told WRAL and WRAL TechWire.”
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MacDailyNews Take: Good luck, North Carolina!
SEE ALSO:
How Apple transformed a North Carolina town – May 29, 2018
Apple close to deal to build major new campus in North Carolina’s Research Triangle pending tax breaks – May 17, 2018
Apple quietly explores Northern Virginia for 20,000-employee campus – May 16, 2018
Apple to build new U.S. campus, pay record $38 billion repatriation tax – January 18, 2018
Apple gives employees $2,500 bonuses after President Trump signed the GOP’s Tax Cuts and Jobs Act – January 17, 2018
Looks like Apple is bringing nearly all of its $250 billion foreign cash back home to America – January 17, 2018
Apple plans to add $350 billion to U.S. economy and create over 20,000 new jobs over next 5 years, pay $38 billion in repatriated taxes, the largest ever made – January 17, 2018
North Carolina lawmakers OK tax incentives for Apple Inc. – May 27, 2009
North Carolina lawmakers push to give Apple massive tax break for $1 billion server farm investment – May 23, 2009
Imminent? Is that in Texas…?
Apple long since ruled out Texas and California for new campus sites, since it already has its largest campuses in those two states.
Like all moocher states like North Carolina, it will likely experience a net loss of income with which it finances the state’s infrastructure and services which means that it will have pressure to raise individual income tax and products tax, thus making individuals poorer.
Yes, yes. But isn’t that how American business works. Always always beggars. American business has taught the world well, use someone else’s money. Government money is the best, one stop begging, and why not. They can always claim they are helping the local economy, creating jobs and all that. North Carolina should remember Dell, but they won’t. Oh well. It’s like these multimillionaires and billionaires wanting and having stadiums built for them, using local tax money, so they can make money and the local governments get the crumbs from the venture. A few construction jobs for a short period, concessions, few restaurants making a few dollars, etc. but the meat and potatoes goes to team owner. What’s funny is he or she will tell you they are due that and much much more or they will move hide team.
It would be nice to hear that a business bought land and built it’s facility without demanding a local tribute, and without receiving one.
100 billion in stock buy back, what a waste. Let them spend it in the communities where they want to build, without demanding the usual gifts and tributes.
“Gifts and tributes” seems like corporate Socialism the very welfare the wealthy and corporatists rail against.
So your solution in a Capitalist society is to do nothing.
Don’t encourage, or compete, to get anyone’s business at any level.
Companies should just produce whatever they make and not try to do better than the next guy.
So if a state wants to compete to get a companies business, they shouldn’t either? All because, someone wrote a bad deal and got burned, they should never try again to get more economic growth for their citizens, even though they have done other deals since then that have paid off economically.
You must live near where the Dell fiasco occurred and have emotional attachment to what happened?
So ANOTHER great distraction for Apple? How long will it take to design the door knobs in this one?
Since cook is such close buddies with trumpy, and they both want to make America as great as it was in 1870, then the obvious choice for the new site is in West Virginia. All the coal workers are ready to get coding right now. Ive will have infinite amounts of new thin alooooominium coming out of 100% Merican mills powered by 100% non renewable carbon. Plus the mountaintop removal mines and arsenide filled rivers have help push down land values. Don’t worry, once the white house rewrites NAFTA, there will be no trade and no way to cross a border, but trumpy will send all the bills to Mexico.
If I was Cook, the next Apple tech campus would be in Canada or western Europe created by refurbishment of a building that already exists.
So I guess that Cook is a social Progressive but a fiscal conservo.
F u c k North Carolina.
Perfect…just what the masses wanted…another reason to further delay a real desktop Mac. Well done, Tim and Co.
If they got rid of all their campuses, they could eliminate all their employees. I’m sure that would speed the pace of product introductions immeasurably. /s
Seriously, you can’t complain that Apple isn’t devoting enough attention to its products while also complaining that they are hiring people to do the additional work, and building, buying, or renting space to house them. These gadgets don’t emerge full-grown from Tim Cook’s forehead like Athena!