Steve Jobs's vision for a 2.8 million square foot, energy-efficient, spaceship-shapednew corporate HQ for Apple that is plunked down on a lush 176-acre campus in Cupertino, California, lives on — although it’s going to take a little longer to build than originally planned.
When Jobs pitched the design to the Cupertino City Council in the summer of 2011, the hope was to have the 14,200 employees that might work there doing their thing at the new facility sometime in 2015. Now it is looking like it could take another year, according to Bloomberg.
The company submitted its new plans to the city last week but must wait for Cupertino to complete an environmental impact report before moving forward on groundbreaking. That report could take till next June.
“They could conceivably break ground in 2013, but only if everything goes smoothly,” said David Brandt, Cupertino’s city manager, Bloomberg reports. And, of course, with any construction, particularly one of this size, nothing ever goes completely smoothly.
The new plans don’t have any big changes from the original vision. A footbridge over a stream has been removed and a freestanding 1,000-seat auditorium has been moved further from a road. The city will post the plans online so everybody can get a gander after Thanksgiving. That way they’ll have time to add more servers so the flow of traffic won’t crash their system. That’s something Apple’s local taxes can surely help pay for.
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