First Phase of Apple's New North Carolina Campus Will Total 900,000 Square Feet

[aapl owner]

Raleigh is terrible. Don't move here. Tell your friends. -Saw that on a bumper sticker.

There is a transit system (bus). If you meant to say there isn't a train system, then yes, you'd be correct. There's also a significant network of Greenway trails that stretch all across the region. It's actually quite walk/bikeable.

LOL, "endless sprawl in every direction" translation the residents of Raleigh enjoy nice big yards and are not in a crowded city with endless noise and pollution but by all means stay away e-coli.

 

[chouseworth]

Cook spent the first ten years of his career at IBM in RTP. He knows the area well and has many long term relationships there. Jeff Williams, his COO, is also an IBM veteran from that same campus.

 

[craigmak]

Cook spent the first ten years of his career at IBM in RTP. He knows the area well and has many long term relationships there. Jeff Williams, his COO, is also an IBM veteran from that same campus.

When I saw they were looking at the area years ago, I thought it was to make it easier to write-off trips to go watch Duke Basketball. Jeff can go when they play NC State. Eddy, Tim, and Jeff all have degrees from Triangle universities so makes sense.

 

[bousozoku]

Cook spent the first ten years of his career at IBM in RTP. He knows the area well and has many long term relationships there. Jeff Williams, his COO, is also an IBM veteran from that same campus.

Ellen Hancock, who spent time at Apple during their transition period, was in charge of IBM Networking Hardware Division at one point.

 

[I7guy]

Man I come to the office every day, because I just like to, but my office (which is also in RTP) is so deserted that today, at nearly 11am on a Friday, I have not seen one single other human. What are we doing building huge campuses in this day and age?

Think we’re going to be slowly going back to the way it was.

 

[technole]

I like Raleigh. You can tell some are unfamiliar with tech nature of the area nowadays as Apple will ultimately become neighbors with their best friend, Tim Sweeney and Epic Games. As they are in the Raleigh burb of Cary.

It's good business to be several places. No one in Silicon Valley is completely centered there anymore. Google, Meta, Oracle, and even Apple. All the players have a substantial domestic campus elsewhere. Whether it's near suppliers, talent, etc. Like Seattle is big for all of them.

Apple Austin is responsible for the Mac Pro line, and of course Austin is a tech hub. Aside from talent that doesn't want to re-locate to SFV. You also pay less for talent that comes from good schools in North Carolina than in Silicon Valley.

 

[SnowCrocodile]

If that's the case, I wonder if it'll be a multi-level parking garage? That'll at least save a bit on the footprint.

As for (lack of) public transit, hopefully, Apple could lobby the appropriate local agencies/businesses to implement it. I've heard news stories over the years of Apple improving the area around building they get. So helping implement mass transit isn't totally out of the realm of possibility. Example (old, but still…): https://appleinsider.com/articles/0...million_on_chicago_subway_station_renovations

I like the quote:

They can lobby all they want, a typical sprawling US suburbia with 2-4 families per acre is not a financially viable plan for mass transit. Unless it’s a high population density area, the lack of public transportation is all but inevitable.

 

[Hodog16]

To say real estate agents were excited when the Apple news hit 2 years ago is an understatement. Houses in west Cary have easily doubled in value over the past 2 years, mostly from the housing crunch when interest rates were low but Apple coming helped too.