America almost entirely whiffed when it came to city design.
Apple announces new $1 billion Austin campus as part of big US expansion
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Depends on what you value. I would be claustrophobic in many of those better designed cities.
In front of the Rattan Creek Neigborhood
http://www.kut.org/post/apple-says-its-building-new-1-billion-campus-north-austin
http://www.kut.org/post/apple-says-its-building-new-1-billion-campus-north-austin
Its a complicated subject, for sure. The science seems to suggest overwhelmingly the need for walkable cities and communal living. Suburbs and car-reliant cities do not provide that.
Look at the word "need" in your answer. How can there be a need if it isn't what I want or what Texans want? Need means required because it is essential or very important. Why is it important or essential? Unlike some places, Texas has no shortage of land. I don't like communes, I reject "communal living". I certainly don't need something that I have no desire for.
Sorry man. A lot of people are moving to the city. A lot of American cities aren't well designed.
Do you even ‘endangered salamander’ bro?
It's what the cities themselves need, in order to avoid things like horrendous traffic, which is exactly the problem Austin got itself into by not properly planning for growth.
The massive amount of suburban sprawl feeding into a couple major thoroughfares is horrible design. Couple that with the fact that more and more are moving farther and farther out, and you have a massive issue. And then you have to accommodate all those parked cars so you take usuable livable space and turn it into parking lots, and the problem compounds.
It looks like the site is located ~2miles South of Toll Road 45 on W Parmer Lane at the Dallas Street intersection on the E Side of W Parmer Lane (also known as FM 734).
If you don't like horrendous traffic build adequate roads. Austin has no decent east-west road to get traffic from i-35 to Mopac. Or give us mass transit to the places we really want to go to like the airport. Making us live in walking communes isn't the only way to avoid traffic problems.
If the newly hired Apple employees don't like traffic, they can live in one of many subdivisions along Parmer and have an easy commute to work.
Then, they can go to the Domain for fun and entertainment during the week. If they want to hike around town lake or take in downtown, just wait till Sunday.
As far as the rest of you fighting traffic, don't worry: the driverless cars are going to fix all that.
Then, they can go to the Domain for fun and entertainment during the week. If they want to hike around town lake or take in downtown, just wait till Sunday.
As far as the rest of you fighting traffic, don't worry: the driverless cars are going to fix all that.
I think it’s ok to be up north because likely many of the employees will live up there. Instead of one big downtown/population cluster, north Austin will be a second downtown. I’m sure traffic will be bad around Parmer, but likely no worse than if they placed it downtown or near Oracle.
While I don't mind Amazon, the circus games they played were not cool. Even if it wasn't for the circus, the fact that they were bringing in way more jobs up front and then growing it much larger was my concern with them. This is a much more reasonable number to bring in and should not be a major issue. Being that it is not downtown, it will not cause many issues along 35 or MoPark. Parmer will definitely feel the heat, but there are ways around that area. Not to mention there are some plans in place for growth.
Plus Apple is a good company. While I use Android for my mobile, due to personal preferences, I use a Macbook for my work laptop (along with Linux and a Windows system).
Plus Apple is a good company. While I use Android for my mobile, due to personal preferences, I use a Macbook for my work laptop (along with Linux and a Windows system).
Directly across the street from this pin appears to be the site.I'm guessing the Whataburger right there
It was just the entire premise of the joke -- there is an actual Whataburger pretty much across the street in the screenshot I took from Google Maps.
Haha I could see the huggers teaming up with DUI lawyers on that one.
The jobs will mainly be filled by people not from Austin, so not really all that thrilled.
If a large number of people don’t want to live in the middle of a city and prefer to live in suburbs or out in the country, then that’s their choice.
How could you possibly “know” that. I’m sure that one of the factors in picking Austin was the availability of talent to be able to make local hires. I would venture to guess that when they are fully staffed, the majority, vast majority, will be with locals.
Yes, they will be on part of the Robinson Ranch. That was one of the properties floated to Amazon. It's not a coincidence on the timing of the Apple announcement.
I would much rather have Apple expand here that bringing n Amazon. Bezos's act got old and the whole circus was just that.
Actually, it will be closer to 50/50 which has been their ratio of other technical hires in Austin and for the technical positions they hire locally most of those positions will be backfilled from people relocating to Austin - there is no surplus of available technical talent in Austin.
Currently, the technical unemployment rate in Austin is around 1.5%. I am in the technical recruiting business in Austin and we are consistently relocating people to Austin to fill our clients' roles. It's fairly easy to get people to want to move to Austin nowadays.
For Apple, even with relo costs, it's still significantly less expensive to build a technical campus here in Austin that in California.
