Apple will test out Cary before moving to RTP
N&O Innovation and Technology Newsletter: August 6, 2021
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Like many people who move to the Triangle from out of state, Apple will start off its life in the Triangle as a renter before building its new home in Research Triangle Park.
The Silicon Valley tech company has been approved for building permits to renovate three floors of MetLife 3 at 301 Metlife Way in Cary.
Apple announced in April that it would invest more than $1 billion in a new campus in Research Triangle Park that would employ at least 3,000 employees over the next 10 years. The massive campus is planned for the Wake County side of RTP, straddling N.C. 540 near Cary and Morrisville.
But until that 1-million-square-foot campus is built, Apple will settle in Cary, though a timeline has not been announced.
Apple’s temporary home at MetLife 3 will cost the company at least $5.4 million, according to project plans filed with the Town of Cary.
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(Amgen is opening a manufacturing facility in Holly Springs.)
Tech news from the Triangle
Amgen to hire 355 employees at future Holly Springs manufacturing site. [N&O]
Why power-tech company Smart Wires is moving its HQ from the Bay Area to Durham. [N&O]
SAS and Cisco will require employees to be vaccinated to return to the office. [N&O]
Tempus, a precision-medicine startup, opening 200-person lab in RTP. [N&O]
Medical device company Bioventus made its largest acquisition ever just a few months following IPO. [N&O]
FCC names Raleigh ‘innovation zone’ for drone, wireless communications. [WRAL]
Raleigh’s VitalFlo has raised more than $2.1 million. [TBJ]
What I’m reading
Amazon postpones return to office until Jan. 2022. [CNBC]
A Nude Attitude: An Inside Look at the Triangle’s Naturist Community. [Walter Magazine]
‘She saved my life.’ Miss Betty White, Durham’s Vespa-riding pup, turns heads everywhere. [N&O]
The education of Melvyn Bragg. [New Yorker]
From fishing villages to a billion-dollar tourism industry — how NC 12 transformed OBX. [N&O]
Apple unveiled changes to iPhones designed to catch cases of child sexual abuse, a move that is likely to please parents and the police but that was already worrying privacy watchdogs. [NYT]
Biden signs an executive order setting a target for electric vehicles, hydrogen-fuel cell and plug-in hybrid vehicles to make up 50% of U.S. sales by 2030. [WSJ]
Wall Street Is squeezing out first-time homebuyers. [BBG]
Fewer than half of NC students passed latest state reading exam. [N&O]
Other Triangle business
Raleigh dive bar getting a slide. [N&O]
Singer Shirley Caesar is selling her NC home for $1.5M with epic Star Wars-themed theater. [N&O]
Staffing firms confront hiring difficulties in N.C. [N&O]
Let me know what you’re seeing. Email me at zeanes@newsobserver.com. Tweet me @zeanes. Call me at 919-829-4516.
Zachery Eanes is the Innovate Raleigh reporter for The News & Observer and The Herald-Sun. He covers technology, startups and main street businesses, biotechnology, and education issues related to those areas.
This newsletter was produced with financial support from a coalition of partners led by Innovate Raleigh as part of an independent journalism fellowship program. The N&O maintains full editorial control of the work. Learn more; go to bit.ly/newsinnovate
