Will Apple Build Its Next Major Campus in Your State?

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While Apple is counted among the major Silicon Valley, California tech-giants — having recently opened up its sprawling new Apple Park headquarters in Cupertino — the company maintains a presence in several other regions across the United States, too.

Apple’s sprawling facility in Austin, Texas — where its high-end Mac Pro computer is assembled — is just one example of a facility outside the Golden State where Apple conducts business.

Cupertino may have just plunked down a cool $5 billion or more to develop and decorate its massive new ‘Spaceship campus’, but the company back in January of this year announced plans to develop yet another new regional campus somewhere else in the U.S.

Not only will this upcoming campus provide domestic, full-time jobs for employees numbering potentially “in the hundreds,” according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, but that number could ultimately soar much higher given the campus will represent yet another major investment in U.S. job creation as pursuant with the Trump administration’s recent tax code revisions.

Where Will Apple Build Its Next Facility?

According to Apple’s previous statements, we know the facility, at least initially, will be used to house call center staff — and we can easily rule out both California and Texas as potential sites, given the tech-giant already operates two major call centers in Elk Grove, California, and Austin, Texas.

Gurman and his colleagues conducted their own analysis and offered their best guesses as to where Apple might set up shop next, whittling down the field of potential candidates by considering key criteria like “regions where Apple already has a strong presence, proximity to suppliers, local business conditions and costs, concentration of educated talent and adjacency to transportation hubs.”

Amazon made headlines last year with the announcement it would be developing a new, major campus — dubbed HQ2 — in one lucky U.S. locale, promising thousands of high-paying jobs and economic prosperity for its residents.

But the news created somewhat of a stir among towns across the Fruited Plain who’ve since been vying (in some instances, desperately) for the e-commerce giant’s attention.

Apple, however, “has no plans to create an Amazon-style public bidding process,” according to Gurman, who noted that “cities from Sidney, Nebraska, to Orlando, Florida, have already expressed interest in hosting the facility.”

And though Amazon, when announcing its plans, outlined a number of key criteria it was looking for in an HQ2 host, Apple has yet to provide any guidelines or expectations — though Gurman assumed the iPhone maker would be looking for similar attributes including “an educated workforce, tax incentives and accessible transportation.”

Bloomberg’s exclusive report is definitely worth checking out, as it offers a comprehensive, interactive breakdown of possible considerations Apple might factor into making its final decision. He concluded, however, considering the broad range of factors, that the following cities may be among Apple’s short list of potential candidates:

Northeastern states: Pennsylvania, Massachusetts or even upstate New York.
Southeastern states: North Carolina or Florida
Midwestern states: Illinois or Wisconsin.

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