14 DAY TRIAL // During a press conference held in the Cupertino City Hall lobby, mayor Gilbert Wong responded positively to Apple’s plans for a revolutionary new campus in an area previously owned by Hewlett Packard.
On June 7, Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple, Inc., announced at a city council meeting that Apple planned to move forward with the building of a new campus in Cupertino where between 12,000 and 13,000 employees would be housed.
The project is one of the most ambitious of its kind, with Apple planning to construct a ring-shaped facility that doesn’t feature a single straight window, Jobs said on Tuesday.
Media outlets have since used terms like ‘mother-ship’ and ‘space-ship’ to describe the structure proposed by Jobs & Co.
During the meeting, city council members took great joy in watching the presentation of one of the most influential and iconic figures of our time.
Mr. Jobs, a cancer survivor still battling an illness that robs him of protein, made it clear that Apple’s new campus would be mostly self sustained, and that it would pose great benefits not only for the city of Cupertino, but also for the world.
“Originally announcing plans to build a new campus at a city council meeting in April, 2006, Apple has since purchased a 92-acre parcel in Cupertino that had previously belonged to HP,” reads the announcement provided by Cupertino high-ups.
“Apple now owns a total of 180 acres in Cupertino in the area of the proposed new campus,” city officials confirmed. “The announcement was enthusiastically received by the city council.”
“A hallmark of Apple's technology has been innovation and the high value that the company places on design,” said Mayor Gilbert Wong. “We have learned to expect that Apple will bring this same high standard to all of its projects.”
Cupertino officials also noted that Apple continues to be the single largest employer in the city and, thanks to its continued success, Apple is also “an important and tangible indication of the vitality of our local businesses and economy.”