Apple has a bright future for London as it has agreed to lease office space at the Battersea Power Station, near the River Thames in Southwest of London. The iPhone maker will move 1,400 staff to the soon to be "Apple campus".
Apple will occupy nearly 500,000 square feet across six floors of office space for its employees at the central Boiler House, Battersea Power Station. The company will be the biggest tenant at the complex. Apple is looking forward to the opening of the new "London campus" in 2021.
Apple's main headquarters in Cork, Ireland will still remain where it employs 6,000 people. The company's soon-to-be headquarters in Battersea Power Station, London will be one of its biggest headquarters outside United States, according to Evening Standard UK.
Once the 42-acre Battersea Power Station is complete, the space is estimated at more than 8.5 million square feet. It is London's most prominent development project. The owners behind the £9 billion project are Malaysian shareholders Sime Darby, SP Setia and The Employees Provident Fund.
The chief executive of the Battersea Power Station Development Company said in an interview, "We are delighted Apple chose to make this their home in 2021." He added, "It is a testament to not only the fantastic building but the wider regeneration of the 42-acre site, which offers a carefully curated mix of homes, businesses and leisure amid extraordinary open spaces and new transport links."
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Next year, Apple will open its "Apple Campus 2" in Cupertino, California with its concept as "spaceship" due to is circular-shaped design with glass details. The facility is said to have 2.8 million square feet of office space for more than 12,000 employees. Apple's Campus 2 will also be completely powered by renewable energy and will be generated by 700,000 square feet of solar panels including small fuel cells, reported by Fortune.
The new campus in Cupertino will also have more than 7,000 trees, an underground parking, new auditoriums, on-campus restaurants and 100,000 square-feet corporate fitness center for their employees. The parking structures itself will reach 2 million square-feet. Construction appears well enough to be able to move to their schedule, which is next year.
