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Apple might be synonymous with Cupertino, Calif., though it’s creation some-more moves in a neighbor to a north.
As remarkable by a Silicon Valley Business Journal, Apple has leased 156,000 block feet of bureau space in Sunnyvale, Calif.’s Town Center Office building. The space can fit some 400 employees, the City of Sunnyvale pronounced in a press release announcing a understanding (PDF).
This is Apple’s latest enlargement in a adjacent city, that is where Yahoo, AMD, Juniper Networks, and a handful of other record companies are headquartered. Last month Apple sealed a understanding to franchise space in a 224,000-square-foot trickery nearby. The latest plcae is directly subsequent to a identical bureau building where Nokia put 500 of a employees final year.
“This is an critical step forward,” pronounced Sunnyvale City Manager Gary Luebbers in a statement. “Our whole village will advantage as we see nonetheless another vast benefit in a Town Center redevelopment project.”
Apple is not approaching to pierce into a space until a third entertain of 2012, Luebbers said.
Apple has been creation moves to find additional space to fit employees around Silicon Valley, leasing bureau space good outward of a Cupertino headquarters, that can reason about 2,800 employees. The association has some 12,000 employees in a area, that is what led to a association pitching skeleton to a City of Cupertino final year to build a second campus that can fit 12,000 people. That plan is slated to be finished by 2015 tentative an environmental impact news and other city approvals.