Apple’s new spaceship inspired headquarters will take three years to complete and will employee 9,200 construction workers.
Those statistics were provided in a new 82-page economic impact report that Apple unveiled on Tuesday.
The spaceship campus is a huge undertaking for Apple, and, when completed, it will feature 2.8 million square feet of workable space.
The Apple headquarters economic impact report was prepared by Keyser Marston Associates, and it details how jobs inside and outside of Apple, Inc. will be affected in Santa Clara County. Apple plans to hire 7,000 new employees by 2016 to help fill its new office space. That would mean Apple would employ a staff of 23,400.
The company also claims that 41,000 jobs will be supported in the county “through expenditures by Apple and Apple employees.
Apple employees won’t be the only way Santa Clara county will make money. The new headquarters will provide an additional $32 million in property tax revenue each year.
Apple also plans to spend $66 million to help improve public projects around the new spaceship campus and the surrounding area.
Throw in an increasing in higher end home sales, visitors from out of town who come to the Apple headquarters, and various other variables, and you have change in economics for the better in almost any areas where such an undertaking is employed.
The economic impact for Apple , Santa Clara county, and all of its residence appears to be positive. Now Apple just needs to get the new headquarters built.
Do you like the Apple spaceship headquarters design, or should the company have gone with a more traditional approach when building a major world headquarters for its main base of operations?
