Apple is bursting at the seams with employees, and chief executive Steve Jobs wants to build a new corporate campus in Cupertino, California that will be dominated by a single "spaceship"-like building.
Steve Jobs wants to build a "spaceship"-like campus for Apple employees. Screengrab: Steven Musil/CNET News
Jobs went before the Cupertino City Council on Tuesday to present plans for development of a campus that will augment — not replace — its current campus at Infinite Loop Drive. Jobs said the current campus holds about 2,800 employees, but the company has 12,000 employees in the area.
"Apple is growing like a weed," Jobs told the City Council. "It's clear we need to build a new campus." Apple purchased 98 acres from HP in 2010 on Pruneridge Avenue, adjacent to 50 acres the company purchased in 2006. Apple did not reveal the selling price, but real-estate experts estimate it may have been $300m, (£183m) or more, according to an AllThingsD report.
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