Apple Expands Into San Francisco With New Office Building Lease

[kds1]

This move seems to be geared towards keeping up Apple's image as much as convenience for those that live in SF. The only convenience I can image is for those at Apple that setup the annual SF events like WWDC, and others.

Frankly I seriously doubt that there's many Apple employees that actually live in one of the most expensive, small, heavily crowded, major metro cities in all of the USA. Once a resident myself, right out of college, I enjoyed SF prior to the high tech invasion which drove the already high prices to astronomical highs that are causing major issues today.

With it's astronomical real estate prices for eighty to one hundred year old homes, the few people I know that grew up in SF, fled (like I did) to the peninsula as adults where for the same amount or less they could have three times the square footage, a far newer if not brand new home with ample parking, and still have the high end image.

It will be interesting if Apple keeps it's operations there secret, or mentions just what departments they have moved there. I'd venture a guess if they comment it will be one of their carefully crafted statements just to get the press off their back. In many ways it's a surprise that they failed to do this before the ultra staggering lease factors hit.

The Peninsula is suburbia. I wouldn't live there. Parking? Who cares? You don't need to own a car when you live in a real city (note: I live in NYC). There's also a reason 80 to 100 yr old homes sell for those prices They are often bigger, better constructed, have character, and more details that slap together cheaply constructed new properties don't have. People like to buy these old classic homes with character and restore them. One of my friends has done just such a thing with a home nearly 100 years old. You know the saying, "They just don't build 'em like they used to". Sounds like city urban life isn't for you. You also seem to be preoccupied with "image". Move to Walnut Creek?

 

[Silencio]

Syria, off the top of my head.
Edit: Actually no, Qatar, unless you count sandstorms. I cheated and checked the natural disaster risk list for this one. It's rare to be that safe.

If you thought the commute from SF to Cupertino was bad, try the commute from Syria to Cupertino.

 

[Benjamin Frost]

If you thought the commute from SF to Cupertino was bad, try the commute from Syria to Cupertino.

Siri: "Where would you like to go"
You: "Syria"
Siri: "Siri, er...Please would you make up your mind!"
You: "Blistering barnacles!"

 

[RenoG]

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The Peninsula is suburbia. I wouldn't live there. Parking? Who cares? You don't need to own a car when you live in a real city (note: I live in NYC). There's also a reason 80 to 100 yr old homes sell for those prices They are often bigger, better constructed, have character, and more details that slap together cheaply constructed new properties don't have. People like to buy these old classic homes with character and restore them. One of my friends has done just such a thing with a home nearly 100 years old. You know the saying, "They just don't build 'em like they used to". Sounds like city urban life isn't for you. You also seem to be preoccupied with "image". Move to Walnut Creek?

Yeah really sounds like walnut creek would suit him just fine.

 

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[0309385]

Frankly I seriously doubt that there's many Apple employees that actually live in one of the most expensive, small, heavily crowded, major metro cities in all of the USA.

You obviously haven't been to SF 2.0?

Last year I saw about 5 apple employees wearing the gold apple watch edition with their gold iPhones hopping on a Cupertino bus at the stop before the Apple Watch was launched...

 

[firewood]

... there are faults lines all across the Bay Area, and many other factors which go into where and how damage is most severely experienced. There is no reason at all to assume there is more likely to be an earthquake which damages this building as one that could potentially decimate the new spaceship campus.

The HP buildings that were previously on the site of the new spaceship campus were actually slightly damaged in the '89 earthquake. I think an A/C unit was reported as partially falling through one building's roof. Someone in the HP parking lot reported seeing the street ripple like an ocean wave as the earthquake first propagated by. Apple employees will enjoy riding the next one.

 

[Rocketman]

The building is right by the Yerba Buena Center.