Apple Working to Lease 700,000-800,000 Square Feet of New Office Space in Sunnyvale

[CFreymarc]

I am sure they are grabbing the buildings at Sunnyvale Town Center. This is the first move without Steve. Steve hated these buildings and told off the Sunnyvale planners that this place had no soul. Will do well before the Steve Jobs building is done in two years.

 

[Dionte]

This is all great, when can we get an apple tv update?

 

[hchung]

The spaceship campus is simply irresponsible - building a low-rise office building surrounded by newly-planted orchards with no regard to traffic. They should build high-rise buildings and plan for future growth on the same campus - AND THEY SHOULD PAY TO ROUTE LIGHT RAIL PUBLIC TRANSIT TO THE CAMPUS.

Light Rail is disaster. I have a station minutes from my house and within walking distance to my work. Yet it triples my commute time because of the 1st street transfer. After trying to be a responsible citizen (and save on gas money) for 3 months, I just couldn't do it.

They need to remove stops and make it possible to eliminate the transfer or time it better. Otherwise it's just not worth it.

 

[Rodimus Prime]

Light Rail is disaster. I have a station minutes from my house and within walking distance to my work. Yet it triples my commute time because of the 1st street transfer. After trying to be a responsible citizen (and save on gas money) for 3 months, I just couldn't do it.

They need to remove stops and make it possible to eliminate the transfer or time it better. Otherwise it's just not worth it.

As you pointed out it is not light rail that is the problem. It is the street level stuff they need to work out that part of the issue in logistical stuff but it is not light rails fault there.

It is logistical part that is a problem not the other part. I know people who use it and they find light rail is great because they do not have to deal with the stress of traffic. They get on the light rail then walk to work form there. It works great. I even know people who transfer rail lines and then the bus. Commute time is the same to sightly longer than driving for those people and again the lack of stress of traffic makes it worth it to them. Not like they have to drive and deal with traffic.

 

[AidenShaw]

I live on the SF Peninsula so yes, I am familiar with these issues.
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There are also aesthetic issues with low-rise and high-rise buildings, as well as certain safety concerns of a high-rise building in the event of a major seismic event. I will point out that the San Andreas Fault runs along nearby Stevens Creek.

Have you ever been to San Francisco and looked at the skyscrapers downtown? Or Tokyo? Or Seattle? Or Taipei? Or Los Angeles? Or Jakarta?

I think that structural engineers have figured out the issues with building high rise buildings in earthquake zones. Note that in the 1989 Loma Prieta quake, a lot of three story buildings collapsed, but none of the skyscrapers were damaged. (Even the 12 story original part of the St. Francis, built in 1904, was OK (no surprise, since it survived the Great Earthquake of 1906).)

And the San Andreas is quite a ways from the "nearby Stevens Creek" - see http://geology.com/san-andreas-fault/ to zoom in on the fault location. It's true, though, that the headwaters of Stevens Creek are in Stevens Canyon, which is the surface trace of the San Andreas.

The best option is for Apple to stake out the land and erect structures that will support the projected staffing increases (note that Apple grows staff quite slowly).

I agree, which is one reason why the spaceship campus should be killed. Did you see:

Apple already planning third corporate campus​

They already think that the spaceship is too small....