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Apple Campus 2 to boast $161M auditorium, $74M fitness facility

By Mikey Campbell

Newly unearthed building permits discovered this week reveal a bit more about Apple's plans for its Campus 2 facility, with the company earmarking $161 million for an auditorium and $74 million for an employee gym.

As noted by BuildZoom, Apple on a theater to be installed on the company's Campus 2 compound currently in Cupertino, Calif.

The auditorium was previously detailed in project plans as being a massive "assembly space" with seating for 1,000, a large lobby, restrooms and back-of-the-house facilities including a catering kitchen. Visitors will be served by 350 parking stalls in the above-grade North Tantau parking structure.

Also found in publicly available permits are plans for a $74 million gym facility, revealed in project revisions to be a 100,000-square-foot building located to the northwest of Campus 2's main "spaceship" structure. It will feature a number of amenities, including changing rooms, showers, laundry, gym equipment, multi-purpose rooms for group sessions.

Apple's Campus 2 was pitched to the Cupertino City Council by late cofounder Steve Jobs , noting that the enormous main structure would house 12,000 employees. The build is well underway and CEO Tim Cook expects to .