The company has announced plans to develop two buildings that will straddle the border of Culver City and the city of Los Angeles and will be connected by a shared wall.
Expected to cover a total of 555,000 square feet, the property will double Apple’s office space in the Culver City area where Apple TV is based.
No timeline has been announced for the completion of the buildings.
Apple established operations in Culver City in 2014 and has since grown to employ more than 1,500 people in L.A. County. That same year, Apple acquired Beats Electronics, also based in Culver City.
Apple has leased an office building at 8777 Washington Blvd., being developed by LPC West Inc., the West Coast arm of Lincoln Property Co., and Clarion Partners. It is being designed by Gensler.
The building has 125,000 square feet of office space, fully leased to Apple, in addition to retail space. In April, Apple announced plans to spend $430 billion in the United States to create 20,000 new jobs in the next five years. As part of that growth plan, Apple plans to employ a total of more than 3,000 people in Culver City by 2026.
Culver City locations have been in high demand among streaming companies.
Seattle-based Amazon.com Inc. has leased large blocks of space at Culver Studios and Culver Steps — both from Culver City-based Hackman Capital Partners and New York-based Square Mile Capital. In total, Amazon has hundreds of thousands of square feet of office and studio space in Culver City.
The office component of the Ivy Station development, meanwhile, has been leased to Warner Media. Lowe, based in Brentwood, AECOM-Canyon Partners and Rockwood Capital are the developers behind the $350 million project. Ivy Station has 500,000 square feet, including apartments, a hotel and retail space.
