A building that will house 15,000???

 

They're not moving to Ohio?

They're not moving to Ohio?

 

Ha ha...could you imagine that Kasich press conference!

^I know, that's what I was thinking! :wink:

According to another thread on this board, suburban corporate campuses are out of vogue.  Somebody should tell Steve Jobs.

According to another thread on this board, suburban corporate campuses are out of vogue.  Somebody should tell Steve Jobs.

 

Depends.  For big R&D components you need alot of contiguous floor space....which is why techtowns in old historic warehouses work so well. 

^

Ironically enough they tore down the big old industrial loft building in Daytons techtown.  Cost too much to do an adaptive reuse from loft industrial to loft tech.

 

Depends.  For big R&D components you need alot of contiguous floor space

 

...though this does sound like a good re-use for some of Daytons old suburban (and vacant) industrial plants.

^ That's when I say, they should have just picked a different site.  We're fortunate alot of older warehouse and factory buildings have wide column widths, heavy floor loads, and high ceilings to accommodate a wide range of modern research and production.

 

Just for run I ran some calculations and found Apple would fit in the Old Main Post Office here in Chicago.  Yet space would still be tight:

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Chicago_Main_Post_Office

That old PO was (is?) a Chicago landmark due to the Eisenhower (AKA Congress Expressway) passing right through it on its way to the lake.  You are heading east on a big sunken freeway, see this tunnel into this massive building, then pass through that post office and ..bam...you are crossing the Chicago River and in the Loop, more or less, on a surface street, passing by the big stone arches of the Auditorium before hitting the open space of Grant Park.

 

Used to be one of the great driving experiences in the city.

Not like it matters much where Apple moves, I'm sure they move all of their intellectual property electronically to some bs subsidiary in Switzerland or Ireland to evade our high taxes anyway, like every other large tech company does.

That old PO was (is?) a Chicago landmark due to the Eisenhower (AKA Congress Expressway) passing right through it on its way to the lake.  You are heading east on a big sunken freeway, see this tunnel into this massive building, then pass through that post office and ..bam...you are crossing the Chicago River and in the Loop, more or less, on a surface street, passing by the big stone arches of the Auditorium before hitting the open space of Grant Park.

 

Used to be one of the great driving experiences in the city.

 

Still is a great driving experience.  The building was recently sold but redevelopment plans have been kept private.  The building is a historical landmark, so it's appearance won't be changing much.  It's cool to dream of Apple moving somewhere in the midwest, but the talent is out there in the Bay area.  Too bad Cupertino sucks, and to think I almost spent many years living in Hayward.

An office building that will accomodate 15,000 isn't that far off. Chase has a Building in Columbus that employs 10,000. Its 2 million square feet  and 3-4 stories tall.