14 DAY TRIAL // Although not every resident of Cupertino is ecstatic about the “spaceship” campus being built for Apple, the city’s planners along with the architectural geniuses hired by Apple are continuing the constructions at a fast pace.
It may not be so evident from the new photo published by Apple on Cupertino.org this week, but even the biggest developments are hard to spot from such a distance.
New aerial photo of Campus 2
Apple doesn’t like to brag too much about the massive project underway at the crossroads of Homestead Road and Wolfe Road in the City of Cupertino, but it is taking it as serious as it would its flagship product, the iPhone.
Every now and then Apple releases new and / or updated information about the progress on site, and this week the company is greeting Cupertino.org visitors with a new aerial image of the colossal construction site.
Along with this image, Apple offers a map to better mark some key locations around the site that have been affected by the ongoing work there. For example, the Mac maker – with the help of city planners – warns of “lane reductions on Wolfe Road between Pruneridge Avenue and Homestead Road,” or that “left turns from northbound Wolfe road to westbound Homestead Road are reduced to a single lane.”
The City of Cupertino itself informs motorists that traffic delays in the vicinity of the Apple Campus 2 site will not be uncommon, at least until the digging and demolitions are toned down a bit.
The construction work hours remain unchanged – from 7 am to 7 pm weekdays and from 9 am to 6 pm weekends – while traffic restrictions will continue to occur frequently during weekdays.
Late 2016, at the earliest
When he pitched the project to the skeptical Cupertino officials in 2011, Steve Jobs had originally planned to have the building finished by 2015. His estimates were soon proven wrong, and that included a delay on behalf of the City of Cupertino because it had to get some approvals. In fact, these things rarely pan out as originally thought.
According to the Apple Campus 2 General Project Schedule, the street utilities will be the first to diminish their impact around the end of Q4 this year. The chart, showing various project phases with their time frames interlaced, reveals that Demolition will continue into Q1 2015, while Earthwork will not end until the far reaches of Q2, maybe even going into early Q3.
Building Construction is estimated to take the longest. This process was kickstarted with modest developments only a few months ago, and will not be completed until the absolute end of 2016, according to the Cupertino website.
