The fake mountain is a huge dirt pile from excavation that's reserved local for topsoil. The grass on the pile is there to prevent erosion. Once all the major work is complete and construction becomes an interior works project, the plan is to start with the orchards of the type that were originally in Cupertino from fifty years ago. Any excess topsoil will be trucked off site. If all goes to plan, the fruits from the orchard will be sold at the company gift shop and donated to local food banks.
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Apple Campus 2 'Spaceship' Taking Shape as Construction Continues
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Apple and Elon's companies have a very touch and go relationship. The Apple start-up and disruptive mindset is present in both Tesla and Space X making a lot of career corporate bears rates in both automotive and aerospace not able to balance their four year spreadsheets. However, Apple does not want to bow to them. It is similar to whew there was a gentelmans agreement between Steve Jobs and Jeff Hawkins not to appear on the same event stage.
Silicon Valley housing prices are seriously out of control. So yes.
Nice!
What's the plan for the center part... an airplane landing strip?
I really want them to add a massive Apple logo.
Well, then I'm going to use a air propelled net that deploys and take the sucker down, or use my own fleet of drones over my property to hunt and destroy as pack (like guard dogs). See how that goes... There is protection for privacy and private property that exists too; the law will have to define this or they'll be a hell of a lot of clashes coming.
Can't take the heat, get out of the kitchen. Someone can pay for these. Learn their game and level up.
It is expected that houses within a half mile of the campus will double in value once construction is complete.
I worked with a local, long time resident whom actually bought their house four blocks away on the Sunnyvale side of the now Apple Campus 2 in the 1960s. He is one of those non-profit, church workers set in their ways whom was a stick-in-the-mud when anything new was discussed. His house was paid off in the 80's.
When I first met the guy, he was telling stories about how neighbors were complaining about construction of the HP campus in the 70's. Believe it or not, there was a local effort of these Sunnyvale residents to stop the building of the Apple Campus 2. That went nowhere as it was build in Cupertino and the Sunnyvale town console didn't act on their petition.
Anyhow, he gave into a prospective investor and sold his house for around $850,000 cash. He thought it was big. A year later, every house on the block is appraised at around $2,000,000. His stick-in-the-mud head is still spinning about that. One of the few times I did an, "I told you so!" but he sold the house at the time due to some church or family money need.
Put them in the restrooms, that's where the really interesting projects are discussed. When building the Pixar's new headquarters Jobs wanted only one set of restrooms on the ground floor so the employees would be more creative and productive.
I heard they stockpiled all the excavation soil. That is massive if true. There is plenty of area to backfill and spread it around I bet.
What's the plan for the center part... an airplane landing strip?
Ah, I thought everyone knew:
I hear that the Touch Id part is keyed to God's finger.
Now now. I live in Santa Clara County, am a homeowner, have a successful career in tech, and have every right to comment. And I'm here to tell you that a 950 square foot, 1-bedroom, 1-bath, moldy/leaky glorified shack on a noisy, 2500 square foot corner lot going for $2.1 million is pretty damn flabbergasting.
Not that there's anything to be done about it, except maybe short the stocks of Valley mortgage lenders who will be holding a big bag of smoke when the next tech recession hits. It's supply and demand writ large, and supply is just not there.
If you knew fiances as well as you work you tech job, you'd understand what is going on. There are many financial mechanisms to get a house like that at the price and work it to your advantage.
Not only do I understand what's going on, I've lived (and been a homeowner) through three tech recessions. They tend not to be great fun for those with large mortgages. Sure, the guy who sold that 950-sq-ft house for $2.1 million owned it for about six years, during which its value more than doubled. His down payment was about $100k, so he made 10X his money in that time, and it is taxed favorably. Not bad. But ultimately the music stops, and you don't want to be the one without a chair, is all I'm saying.
4 miles away can't under any stretch of the imagination equal a stones throw away. And most sophisticated consumer drones I've heard of, through smart software means in conjunction with an internal gps, will not takeoff near the restricted airspace of airports and other sensitive locations, or navigate into them. There's an invisible wall the drone will refuse to operate in. Also, the location of the second campus is perpendicular to the direction the runways are oriented. Furthermore, the question on legality i was replying to was very much most likely in reference to property rights, not airspace in proximity to airports.
Thanks for confirming my point. http://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-faa-drone-model-airplane-rules-20140623-story.html