Apple spending $240M to expand its Austin, Texas campus

Apple's early phases of its Austin Texas project are complete, and the next phase is soon to start at a cost of about $240 million.

The company currently has two campuses in Austin, the second of which it started building in 2019. The expansion will take place at this campus located at 6900 Parmer Lane.

Called Capstone Phase Two AC09 and Capstone Phase Two AC07, the projects are a four-story and a five-story building, respectively. The two buildings will add 419,441 square feet of office space.

Construction for both buildings will start on September 30, 2023, and have an estimated completion date of March 30, 2025, according to a recent report from MySA. Apple is using HKS Architects for both buildings.

Apple started constructing its first Austin campus in 2012, followed by its second campus in 2019. The second campus was part of the company's plan to increase its investment in the US and create jobs.

"Planned capital expenditures in the US, investments in American manufacturing over five years and a record tax payment upon repatriation of overseas profits will account for approximately $75 billion of Apple's direct contribution," Apple said at the time.

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AutigerMark 6 Years · 65 comments

About 1 year ago

JP234 said:

Apple opening another facility in Texas. Is this another step in moving company HQ to Texas to avoid California taxes? It's smart business, even though Texas culture is the exact opposite of Apple culture.

Not after spending 5 Billion dollars to build the current HQ.

stevegee 4 Years · 22 comments

i’d love to sit in on some of the meetings leading up to this decision. the pros: relatively cheap for land, infrastructure, people; “pro-business” climate; the cons: unreliable power grid, state government controlled by capricious people detached from reality. it’s a toss-up!?

thadec 2 Years · 96 comments

JP234 said:

Apple opening another facility in Texas. Is this another step in moving company HQ to Texas to avoid California taxes? It's smart business, even though Texas culture is the exact opposite of Apple culture.

Like any large company, Apple has regional headquarters all over the country (and globe). In the southeast, your regional headquarters is either going to be Atlanta or Charlotte (because Miami is too remote). The midwest? Chicago if you are a big company, someplace in Ohio if you are a smaller one. The southwest? It is Texas or nothing. Most of the progressive companies choose Austin, with the talent produced by the University of Texas as an excuse. I say "excuse" because Texas A&M University actually has the better engineering and computer science programs ... but A&M is the most conservative large public university in the country by a mile. But regardless Austin is where Elon Musk decamped to largely because he knew that it was going to have to be a place where many of the people that he wants to work for Tesla would accept living in, and this is likely where he is ultimately going to relocate Twitter also for the same reason. (Pretty much everyone in Austin these days are either Texas graduates or California transplants, if for no reason than they are now the only ones who can afford to live there because it is basically San Francisco - Texas branch.)

But the more traditional companies - meaning not tech companies or those for whom progressivism is part of their brand - put their branch campuses in Dallas-Fort Worth. Unless you are an energy or transportation company, which means you go to Houston. Again, no other place nearby (New Mexico is too close to California to be a southwest branch, there are no good options in Arkansas, Oklahoma or Louisiana etc.) makes sense.

StrangeDays 8 Years · 12986 comments

JP234 said:

Apple opening another facility in Texas. Is this another step in moving company HQ to Texas to avoid California taxes? It's smart business, even though Texas culture is the exact opposite of Apple culture.

Yeah nah.

JP234 said:

AutigerMark said:

JP234 said:

Apple opening another facility in Texas. Is this another step in moving company HQ to Texas to avoid California taxes? It's smart business, even though Texas culture is the exact opposite of Apple culture.

Not after spending 5 Billion dollars to build the current HQ.

Well, they wouldn't be the first company to have a post office box registered as corporate HQ in a low tax state. Or country. Now would they?

What does that have to do with just having spent billions building the current HQ? Nothing.