Apple Inc. has signed a deal for Landbank Investments LLC’s planned Central & Wolfe campus – a 777,000-square-foot project at Central Expressway and Wolfe Road, Sunnyvale. It is expected to look like nothing else ever attempted in Silicon Valley, the Silicon Valley Business Journal reported.
A website, notanotherbox.com, has been set up that shows the approved building designs. The brochure says that the Central & Wolfe Campus will transform the existing old-fashioned 1970s “business park” into a modern 777,100 square feet campus that will be a signature asset for Silicon Valley’s leading-edge technology companies.
The campus will have a three 6-story connected Class-A buildings, with four occupied floors above two levels of podium parking, with lobbies, services, and amenities at the ground level.
The brochure also says that the campus is extremely high performing and energy efficient. The energy costs are significantly lower than many of the buildings occupied by Silicon Valley’s large technology companies. And lower energy costs result in significant cost savings.
Although, Apple is the most profitable company in the Bay Area and the largest by market value, yet a question arises as to why the iPhone maker needs such massive space.
“Apple is clearly staffing up for something else besides the iPhone to supplement its income," Rob Enderle, an analyst who tracks the technology sector, told Mercury News. "My guess is that it's probably a car."
Rumor has it that Apple is apparently considering setting its foot in the car industry and is accelerating its efforts to build an electric car, code-named Titan.
