$1B Apple campus coming to North Austin
Apple Inc. plans to build a $1 billion office campus in North Austin, not far from where it already has a major corporate hub. The company announced at 2 a.m. local time Dec. 13 that the new 133-acre facility will be able to handle about 5,000 employees when it opens, and could grow to house up to 15,000.
Apple— which said it already employs about 6,200 people in Central Texas, the most outside the headquarters in Cupertino, Calif. — expects this move to make it the largest private employer in the region. Grocery chain H-E-B LP has more than 13,000 employees in the Austin metro while Dell Technologies Inc. has an estimated 12,000. Apple is proud to bring new investment, jobs and opportunity to cities across the United States and to significantly deepen the quarter-century partnership with the city and people of Austin.
Jobs at the new campus will include engineering, research and development, operations, finance, sales and customer support.
Apple did not disclose the actual site for its new office. NPR reports it will be less than a mile away from its 38-acre Americas Operations Center. An Apple press event has been scheduled for Thursday morning.
Politicians gushed Apple's praise in the announcement. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said it was "among the world’s most innovative companies," Mayor Steve Adler called it "a vital part of the Austin community for a quarter century" The creation of a new campus that will bring 5,000 new mid-skill, good-paying jobs to the region wouldn’t have been possible without the hard work and dedication of Apple’s partners in Williamson County, the State of Texas, and Apple’s desire to continue its investment in the region.
Austin is already Apple's largest corporate hub outside its headquarters in Cupertino, Calif. When counting contractors, Apple has about 7,000 workers in the Texas capital, according to the Austin American-Statesman.
Apple said it added 6,000 U.S. jobs in 2018 and now employs 90,000 people in all 50 states.
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