Apple occupying temporary space in North Carolina as it builds $1B campus

Apple will reportedly occupy about 200,000 square feet of space in North Carolina temporarily ahead of building out a new $1 billion campus in the state.

The Cupertino tech giant purchased space at the Raleigh Research Triangle in 2018. It plans to build a massive engineering hub in the city that will support high-tech development and other corporate operations.

However, it'll take years before the Raleigh campus is able to be used for work. In the interim, Apple is moving forward with plans to occupy more than 200,000 square feet of temporary space in the nearby city of Cary, according to MacRumors.

Based on plans filed with the local city government, Apple will be taking the entire seven-story "MetLife III" building. Although the plans indicate that Apple plans on building out the first three floors, it eventually intends to occupy the entire building.

Plans for renovation of the building were filed near the end of June and were approved earlier in July, so construction is likely to begin soon.

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lam92103 4 Years · 148 comments

About 3 years ago

Why bother? Remote work is the future

Rayz2016 8 Years · 6957 comments

lam92103 said:

Why bother? Remote work is the future

Yup. Yesterday, I ordered dinner from Remote Workers Pizza Inc.

The app is genius; you see every stage of the pizza being made.

Tony is preparing the dough in his kitchen
Sarah is preparing the tomato layer.
Tony has couriered the pizza base over to Sarah’s.
Meanwhile, Mike is grating some fresh cheese. As soon as the base + tomato arrives at his parent’s house (he still lives at home) then he can do the sprinkling and send it in to Daisy to add the topping.

My pizza will be here sometime in the next eight or nine hours. Because sometimes things need to designed and built in a specialised environment with people working together.

Because remote working doesn’t work for every situation.

crowley 15 Years · 10431 comments

Rayz2016 said:

lam92103 said:

Why bother? Remote work is the future

Yup. Yesterday, I ordered dinner from Remote Workers Pizza Inc.

The app is genius; you see every stage of the pizza being made.
Tony is preparing the dough in his kitchen
Sarah is preparing the tomato layer.
Tony has couriered the pizza base over to Sarah’s.
Meanwhile, Mike is grating some fresh cheese. As soon as the base + tomato arrives at his parent’s house (he still lives at home) then he can do the sprinkling and send it in to Daisy to add the topping.

My pizza will be here sometime in the next eight or nine hours. Because sometimes things need to designed and built in a specialised environment with people working together.

Because remote working doesn’t work for every situation.

Good job Apple doesn’t make pizza.

lukei 13 Years · 389 comments

crowley said:

Rayz2016 said:

lam92103 said:

Why bother? Remote work is the future

Yup. Yesterday, I ordered dinner from Remote Workers Pizza Inc.

The app is genius; you see every stage of the pizza being made.
Tony is preparing the dough in his kitchen
Sarah is preparing the tomato layer.
Tony has couriered the pizza base over to Sarah’s.
Meanwhile, Mike is grating some fresh cheese. As soon as the base + tomato arrives at his parent’s house (he still lives at home) then he can do the sprinkling and send it in to Daisy to add the topping.

My pizza will be here sometime in the next eight or nine hours. Because sometimes things need to designed and built in a specialised environment with people working together.

Because remote working doesn’t work for every situation.

Good job Apple doesn’t make pizza.

No but like many companies they design products that require collaboration which cannot happen over zoom.

lukei said:

crowley said:

Rayz2016 said:

lam92103 said:

Why bother? Remote work is the future

Yup. Yesterday, I ordered dinner from Remote Workers Pizza Inc.

The app is genius; you see every stage of the pizza being made.
Tony is preparing the dough in his kitchen
Sarah is preparing the tomato layer.
Tony has couriered the pizza base over to Sarah’s.
Meanwhile, Mike is grating some fresh cheese. As soon as the base + tomato arrives at his parent’s house (he still lives at home) then he can do the sprinkling and send it in to Daisy to add the topping.

My pizza will be here sometime in the next eight or nine hours. Because sometimes things need to designed and built in a specialised environment with people working together.

Because remote working doesn’t work for every situation.

Good job Apple doesn’t make pizza.

No but like many companies they design products that require collaboration which cannot happen over zoom.

$1bn is a high price for that collaboration, especially on top of the other Apple campuses. I doubt it's necessary.