Affectionately known as “Silicon Hills,” Austin, Texas was ranked as the number 1 city for tech job growth in a report published by Forbes last year. Now, thanks to a huge investment from Apple Inc., it doesn’t look like Austin’s tech boom is going to slow down anytime soon.
On April 24, 2015 Apple announced that they had signed a lease for the seven-story, 215,000-square foot Capital Ridge office building in Southwest Austin. The building, which was already under construction when Apple signed the lease, is slated to open in 2017.
This is the latest effort in Apple’s push to establish Austin as the company’s business operations hub for the Western Hemisphere. Just a few weeks before signing the lease on the Capital Ridge location, the company purchased another 350,000-square foot office complex in Northwest Austin. These facilities might be pretty big, but they’ll both be dwarfed by Apple’s main attraction – a 1.1 million-square foot campus that will cover 38 acres in Northwest Austin.
The campus will employ workers in a variety of different positions including human resources, customer support, corporate sales, finance and accounting. Once the campus is complete, Apple will be the second-largest employer in Central Texas. As of the end of 2014, Apple employed about 4,500 employees in Austin. Once their new facilities are complete, they expect to employ 3,600 more people in the area as well.
Here at Construction Protection Systems we’re proud to have had the opportunity to play a part, however small, in the continued growth Austin’s technology corridor. Stay tuned for more updates from the makers of 1-2-3 Door Shield – the original, reusable door protection system.