Two years ago on April 18th 2006, Apple CEO Steve Jobs stood up at a Cupertino City Council meeting and professed his companies plan to build a new additional campus just one mile from the current.
Two years on and reports show that Apple had made little progress. During the 2006 meeting Jobs openly confessed that the process of designing and building a new campus to hold 3-3500 personnel could take "three or four years."
Jobs even admitted two years ago that Apple paid more for the nine plots of amalgamated land than it initially wished to. "It’s going to cost us more than we’d like," he said, "but hopefully in five years we’ll have forgotten about that and we’ll just have a second nice campus in Cupertino."
The following week CFO Peter Oppenheimer stated in an earnings call that Apple hoped to break ground "in a few years." He also said that Apple would "hopefully complete a second campus in around four years."
Two years on and Apple is currently operating out of the current buildings on the site but is yet to even apply for permits to build on it confirmed Ciddy Wordell a project manager for the City of Cupertino, "They must go through a planning approval process, get a use permit and an architectural review," Wordell said. "It might even involve a general plan change."