Mikey Campbell
Newly unearthed building permits discovered this week reveal a bit more about Apple's plans for its Campus 2 facility, with the company earmarking $161 million for an auditorium and $74 million for an employee gym.
As noted by BuildZoom, Apple will pay $160,999,985 on a theater to be installed on the company's Campus 2 compound currently under construction in Cupertino, Calif.
The auditorium was previously detailed in project plans as being a massive 120,000-square-foot underground "assembly space" with seating for 1,000, a large lobby, restrooms and back-of-the-house facilities including a catering kitchen. Visitors will be served by 350 parking stalls in the above-grade North Tantau parking structure.
Also found in publicly available permits are plans for a $74 million gym facility, revealed in project revisions to be a 100,000-square-foot building located to the northwest of Campus 2's main "spaceship" structure. It will feature a number of amenities, including changing rooms, showers, laundry, gym equipment, multi-purpose rooms for group sessions.
Apple's $5 billion Campus 2 was pitched to the Cupertino City Council by late cofounder Steve Jobs in 2011, noting that the enormous main structure would house 12,000 employees. The build is well underway and CEO Tim Cook expects to move in by 2016.
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So ... will their gym be better than the local Y? ;)
They're building a $74 million gym? Hoo, I didn't know that Woz was going back to work at Apple.
Wish I was an employee at Apple. It seems like this new building is going to be a cool place to work and play.
[quote name="Benjamin Frost" url="/t/183728/apple-campus-2-to-boast-161m-auditorium-74m-fitness-facility#post_2647744"]They're building a $74 million gym? Hoo, I didn't know that Woz was going back to work at Apple.[/quote] That's actually normal for a Gym this big. My alma mater renovated the university gym for $23 millions back in 2004 from donations.
I'm so sick of these exaggerated click-bait headlines. It's not a "$161M" auditorium, the exhibit (and the text of the article) clearly show that this was overstated--for sensationalist effect--by $15. That's more than the cost of an iTunes album.