The city of Cupertino now has a special page on its website devoted exclusively to construction-related updates for Apple Campus 2.
Workers are already hard at work preparing for the demolition of the former Hewlett-Packard campus and future home of Apple’s ring-shaped “spaceship campus” along Pruneridge Avenue.
The web page was announced last week and went live Dec. 9. It aims to keep residents informed about construction activities and related roadway impacts. There is already a new lane configuration along Homestead Road and Tantau Avenue, just a few weeks after Apple received the final round of approvals from the Cupertino City Council.
This week, motorists can expect traffic delays in and around the Apple Campus 2 project site from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Additional traffic restrictions such as lane closures may be needed between the hours of 9 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. The current traffic situation was expected to continue through Dec. 13, according to the project website.
Other constructions impacts include lane reductions on Homestead Road between Tantau Avenue and Wolfe Road and lane reductions on Tantau Avenue between Homestead Road and the Highway 280 overpass.
Left turns from southbound Wolfe Road onto eastbound Homestead Road are reduced to a single lane, and left turns are prohibited from westbound Homestead Road onto southbound Tantau Avenue daily from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., according to the website.
In addition, pedestrians will have unrestricted sidewalk access unless work requires a temporary reroute around the work area. Cyclists will have unrestricted use of Pruneridge Avenue, while bike lanes are closed eastbound on Homestead Road. Bikes may use full lanes on eastbound Homestead and southbound Tantau during lane closures, according to the website.
The web page also features a tentative project schedule timeline. Street utility work is expected to last into the second quarter of 2014, with demolition of the current site expected to last roughly the same time. Earthwork will begin just before the second quarter of 2014 and will last into the second quarter of 2015. Construction of buildings will start in the second quarter of 2014 and will last into and beyond the fourth quarter of 2016.
Throughout October and November, Apple representatives attended Cupertino City Council meetings seeking final approval to begin converting the current 176-acre campus into a sea of green space with the ring-shaped headquarters as the centerpiece.
The project will see the demolition of roughly 2.66 million square feet of existing office, research and development buildings and the construction of 3.42 million square feet of new office space, as well as a 1,000-seat auditorium, fitness center, valet parking center, utility plant and parking structure. The new campus will see the 16,000 Apple employees in the city grow to 24,000 upon completion.
For more information, visit cupertino.org/appleconstruction.