Apple Signs Massive Deal for New Campus in Sunnyvale?

Silicon Valley Business Journal further reports that “The transaction is another sign – as if you need any more – of Apple’s tremendous expansion, potentially providing enough room for more than 3,000 workers”. These maneuvers by Apple would create a third campus for the company besides Cupertino and Sunnyvale.

Industry insiders also point out that Apple is undertaking lease and property purchase deals that suggest it will retain almost all of these offices and sites even after the company completes the spaceship campus. Terms of the deal couldn’t immediately be learned, but it’s believed that Apple has leased, not purchased, the project.

The large campus site in Sunnyvale would replace a 1970s business park with the futuristic looking six-story office campus, complete with a rooftop gardens and two miles of walkable paths.

The proposed campus, which is illustrated at Notanotherbox.com, features three connected main buildings surrounding a central courtyard that will be wrapped in a curved-glass skin that will flow around the building like a rolling wave.

Above: Artist’s depiction of Apple’s planned new campus in Sunnyvale, California.

“We wanted something that was really different, lasting and interesting”, Scott Jacobs, Landbank’s CEO, told BizJournals in 2013 when the project was first proposed. The project was marketed by Steve Horton and Kelly Yoder of Cushman & Wakefield in partnership with Jeff Houston and Mike Charters of CBRE. The headquarters will be a curvaceous, 777,000-square-foot project at Central Expressway and Wolfe Road that’s expected to look like nothing else ever attempted in Silicon Valley. The notion wasn’t without skeptics, but in the end Jacobs’ bet paid off.