Jobs at Cupertino Council

CUPERTINO, CA-When CEO Steve Jobs of Apple Inc. showed up at a meeting of Cupertino City Council recently to talk about the tech company's plans for a new 150-acre headquarters here, Apple joined a growing list of technology and Internet companies that have announced plans for new offices totaling in the millions of square feet. Besides the more than three million square feet that Apple would add to the mix with its new headquarters, other tech companies like Amazon, Google, Facebook and Yahoo have either occupied huge new office complexes or unveiled plans for office campuses in the West and Northwest.

In some cases the companies are moving out of their old offices and into new space. In other cases, they're keeping the old offices and expanding into the new ones. Either way, the tech firms stand out in a US office market that remains sluggish despite some improvement in the past year. Tech firms, in short, represent one of the few growth areas in the office sector.

New Apple Headquarters Rendering