Cupertino highlight
Apple Park
Apple's corporate headquarters, a 64-acre circular structure designed by Norman Foster and completed in 2017, housing 12,000 employees in Cupertino.
Apple Park opened to its first employees in April 2017 and was formally inaugurated on September 12, 2017, capping years of construction on a site that became the company's main campus. The building itself is the work of architect Norman Foster and shaped like a circle, measuring 1,512 feet in diameter and occupying 64 acres in Cupertino. It was designed to house approximately 12,000 to 14,200 employees in a single integrated structure, replacing Apple's previous scattered offices across the region.
The campus achieved LEED Platinum certification and operates on 100 percent renewable energy—a combination of 17 megawatts of rooftop solar panels and 4 megawatts from Bloom Energy fuel cells. The site is 80 percent landscaped green space with 9,000 native trees and includes a 30-acre central courtyard with an artificial pond. At the heart sits the Steve Jobs Theater, a 1,000-seat underground auditorium built into the landscape and used for product presentations and company events.
Apple Park is more than a workplace; it is a symbol of the commitment to long-term investment that characterizes many Cupertino families and businesses. That same principle—planning for the years ahead and protecting the people you are building something for—is what a term life policy does. A family with a mortgage in Cupertino and years of income to protect benefits from the stability that coverage provides.