Apple details new, futuristic campus plans to neighbors

Apple plans to turn a "sea of asphalt" into a green space/UFO landing pad.

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Apple is doing some community outreach in Cupertino, Calif., to help clear a safe public-relations flight path for its new spaceship-styled campus in its hometown. The company recently sent some fliers to its neighbors with information on the upcoming facility and invited feedback.

A copy of the brochure was obtained by 9to5Mac and shows some renderings of the research facility dubbed "Apple Campus 2" along with the planned layout for the property and a letter from CFO Peter Oppenheimer with some key facts and figures:

• The new site will not replace the nearby corporate headquarters at Infinite Loop.


• Twenty-six "aged" buildings on the new 176-acre site will be demolished to make way for the single, four-story, ring-shaped, 2.8 million square-foot building that the late Steve Jobs first told the Cupertino City Council about in one of his last public appearances.


• A nearby set of existing buildings will also be replaced with an additional 300,000 square feet of research buildings.


• The new campus will accommod... [Read more]
  
  
  
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