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Isolation and centralization is useful for the corporation; they have more control over physical security, can manage it so employees tend to interact only with
by bonzoesc 15y ago
Isolation and centralization is useful for the corporation; they have more control over physical security, can manage it so employees tend to interact only with other employees, and it costs a lot less to have space for 12,000 employees off the interstate than to have them downtown (if Silicon Valley towns even have "downtowns;" I know far-flung Miami exurbs usually don't.)
- enf 15y agoPalo Alto and Mountain View have real places; the rest is pretty much all miserable sprawl. I miss working in downtown Palo Alto.
- bonzoesc 15y agoThat's sad to hear. I really love living in a Place.
- r00fus 15y agoCupertino "downtown" is a joke (I used to work there)... it's basically the intersection of two large streets (Stevens Creek at De Anza). Likewise Sunnyvale and Santa Clara are quite anemic, but Los Gatos, Saratoga and even Los Altos aren't bad. MV and PA are great places to dine. Cupertino is the only town I've worked in that never had a downtown.
- whyenot 15y agoCupertino did have a downtown along Stevens Creek and De Anza, but the area changed significantly in the 1950s and 60s when streets were widened and DeAnza College was built. Cupertino certainly doesn't have much of a downtown now.
- Apple-Guy 15y agoApple should just make an underground Cupertino downtown at that site.
- tjarratt 15y agoAs a former Apple employee I cannot disagree more. Everyone at the mothership needs more sunlight, not less. I can't even remember how many days I got to work when the sun was coming up and left as it was setting, or after it set. It was like a perpetual winter.
- Apple-Guy 15y agoWell, that's probably why this building is made with glass all over. Sunlight for everyone.
- brigade 15y agoSanta Clara has a downtown? Sunnyvale didn't really until they started building a clone of Santana Row that went belly up with the housing crash. Well I guess Historic Murphy Avenue sort of counted.
- timcederman 15y agoSan Mateo and Burlingame aren't too bad, and San Carlos has a surprisingly good downtown.
- enf 15y agoOh, I wasn't thinking of places that far north as part of Silicon Valley. Didn't mean to exclude them.
- joezydeco 15y agoI just think it's interesting that this building is the 180 degree total opposite of what Jobs built at Pixar HQ.