Dive Brief:

• Apple is "quietly" constructing its second-largest campus in a 1.1-million-square-foot space in Austin, TX, that is set for completion in 2016.
• The company is in line to receive $35 million worth of tax incentives from Austin city, the county and the state of Texas. In return, Apple has said its campus expansion will result in the creation of 3,600 jobs — in addition to retaining its current 3,100 jobs in the city. 
• The tech giant has also pledged to spend $282 million over the next 10 years on new buildings and equipment in the Texas city. The $300 million Austin campus will be home to Apple's business operations department for the Western Hemisphere. 

Dive Insight:

For the first time since beginning construction, Apple allowed a reporter and photographer, from Austin newspaper the American-Statesman, to tour the new campus. See photos of the new space here.

The reporter said the campus will feature seven "limestone-and-glass office buildings... with restaurants, smoothie and coffee bars along with a full-scale gym with two saunas and a spa-like wellness center with services including medical, dental and eye care, acupuncture and massage."

Four of the seven buildings have already opened, and the remaining three are set to be completed by the end of 2016.

The Austin campus project has drawn less attention than Apple's $5 billion Cupertino, CA, "spaceship" campus that some construction experts are saying "has raised the bar for construction standards."

That Silicon Valley construction project, which the tech giant has also kept mostly secretive, was back in the news in June when it was revealed that Apple would replace the two major contractors responsible for the project — Swedish construction giant Skanska and American commercial contractor DPR Construction. Apple broke ground on the project in 2014, but the completion date has been repeatedly pushed back.