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Construction on Apple Campus 2 Progressing Rapidly, Walls Continue Taking Shape
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Macrumors should put a really clear word like "Construction" in the title of any post on this topic, to warn readers who would be harmed by accidentally clicking on it. Because you're right: this topic comes up constantly, at least twice a year. Somebody think of the children!
Not going to happen. Other the exotic materials used, it should go up quickly. All the parts are fairly simple and created in assembly plants and shipped ready to assemble.
Can confirm. As someone who lives along Homestead Road a few minutes away, getting past the intersection of Wolfe and Homestead right now is a pain in the rear.
Hey is there a down vote button now? I'm seeing posts with negative ratings but I cannot find the button...
Yes, your whole garden covered in red dirt dust, breathing it in, going inside on your carpets. An amazing experience
The fence is mainly for controlling dust during construction, not for privacy. SOP. When the building is completed I don't think the hand of Steve is going to appear from cosmos and un-shroud it like a new Apple product.
Even if you're not an Apple fan ...
... those property values just skyrocketed in the last couple years.
Starfleet Command HQ (San Francisco) has nothing on the Apple Mothership Campus.
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You might be proven wrong. /shrug
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You might be proven wrong. /shrug
"Already priced in" as they say. I used to live in a townhouse 2 blocks further north (down in the picture). Moved out in 2012. Prior rent $2100, new rent $2700.
Rents on the apartments on pruneridge :
http://www.irvinecompanyapartments.com/communities/the-hamptons/prices-and-floorplans
House prices in that area are kissing $1million.
You and a few hundred others. The neighborhood just north of the new Apple campus lies within is typically called Birdland Neighbors. The name comes from the original tract, 50's era, half to quarter acre lots with houses having bird's net built into the apex of the garage facing its street. These were built into the houses in a response to the "concrete jungle" of post war urban spiral at the time.
Considering who you talk to in the local real estate business, it is expected that real estate prices for this neighborhood may go up by 50% to 100% of the current value with proximity to the campus.
Unlike the Infinite Loop campus, which built a very imposing wall around the back of the campus separating the Cupertino neighborhood around Merritt Drive, this campus has major streets surrounding it allowing all the neighborhood direct access to the campus.
Talk about a retirement plan for those that bought in when the HP campus was "new" on the 60's in that same space Apple is building now.
I read the windows are going to be made of Sapphire but no consensus among analysts until the building is completed.
Are those walls gonna be the walls in the underground parking garage?
I'm just trying to get an idea about what we are seeing in that picture.
I'm just trying to get an idea about what we are seeing in that picture.
Been told that not only are doing a single camera but they are doing 3D mapping of different spots on the campus during construction. This way you'll be able to see a 360 view of the place under construction in time lapse.
Oh don't worry, am sure there are plenty of cameras (professional and amateur) pointing at it for that sole purpose.
They are "the perimeter walls that will house the foundation." Are you saying that isn't totally clear?
Samsung already beat them too it:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/72/GCHQ-aerial.jpg
(OK, the GCHQ did anyway
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