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Really, really nice looking building and landscaping. Why keep the IL1 campus, instead of just moving everybody into a slightly larger mothership in 2015?
by flyt 15y ago
Really, really nice looking building and landscaping.
Why keep the IL1 campus, instead of just moving everybody into a slightly larger mothership in 2015?
- hammerdr 15y agoSounds like they still need the space. 20% Increase with 13000 current employees. IL1 will be needed to house everyone.
- redthrowaway 15y agoThey haven't built the new one yet; they could always make it bigger. Even simply thickening it would likely add a ton of space.
- elithrar 15y agoIt would also darken the building and require more artificial light, which it seems they're trying to avoid.
- redthrowaway 15y agoThey could always use skylight tubes [1] Or, if they really wanted to go green... [2] [1] http://www.solatube.com/commercial/index.php http://www.solatube.com/commercial/index.php [2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zMAWztZ6TI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zMAWztZ6TI
- clinton 15y agoI suspect it would make a pretty awesome skunkworks, hidden away from the glitz of the new main campus.
- hugh3 15y agoJust because they've got money to burn doesn't mean they want to burn money. They own Infinite Loop, and they'd have a hard time finding a buyer. Besides, moving everybody in the entire company into a new building sounds like a major pain and a disruption to operations.
- lurker19 15y agoThat is what Amazon did last year, on a rolling basis as leases expired.