Apple has purchased the 43-acre development site at 2347 North First Street in North San Jose’s Golden Tech Triangle which developer Lowe Enterprises had been marketing as a potential 1.8 million square foot North First (‘n1’) campus, designed by Gensler “with tomorrow’s rising companies in mind.” Apple paid a... Read More »
Apple’s plans for a flagship store on Union Square have been approved by San Francisco’s Planning Commission by a vote of 5 to 1. It’s now on to San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors for the final yea or nay, the hearing date for which has yet to be announced. Read More »
Briefly on the market for $5,250,000 this past September, the converted Noe Valley Firehouse at 3816 22nd Street quickly sold for $5,550,000 or $955 per square foot and the buyer was an extinct giant elk. Okay, so the buyer wasn’t actually an extinct giant elk but rather the “Megaloceros,... Read More »
The Cupertino City Council has unanimously approved Apple’s plans for the 175-acre Apple Campus 2, at the center of which the circular 2.8-million square foot “iCon” building designed by Foster + Partners will rise. Having already been endorsed by Cupertino’s Planning Commission, the former Hewlett Packard (HP) campus site... Read More »
The 2.8 million square foot “iCon” building designed by Foster + Partners sits at the center of the proposed Apple Campus 2 slated to be built down in Cupertino. In addition to the four-story “spaceship” for 12,000 employees, a four-story garage for 4,300 cars and a smattering of smaller... Read More »
As proposed, the Castro’s long vacant “hole in the ground” at 2299 Market Street (corner of 16th and Noe) would become a five-story mixed-use development with 18 residential units, 5,000 square feet of ground floor retail and 18 underground parking spaces. And while the proposed Ian Birchall and Associates... Read More »
The one-time Los Gatos home of Apple’s co-founder, Steve Wozniak, has been on the market for at least six months. And despite the fact that the 7,200 sqft house at 300 Santa Rosa Drive was “listed” at $7,950,000 last December, NBC11 is reporting that the owner (a developer and... Read More »
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