Last week, Toyota CEO, Jim Lentz revealed a preview of the new upcoming Toyota headquarters in Plano, Texas. The campus, which is expected to open mid-2017, will be a huge move for Toyota, who is consolidating their three headquarters for manufacturing, sales and marketing, and corporate into one state-of-the-art campus. The move is being done in order to better serve customer needs and more firmly establish Toyota’s plans for long-term growth in North America.
“Our new state-of-the-art North American headquarters is designed to stimulate ever better ways to serve our team members, customers, and community,” said Lentz. “As we get closer to completion, we look to recruit people who want to challenge what’s possible at Toyota and within the auto industry.”
What does the Plano campus consist of so far? Here are some stats.
- Over 2,000 daily workers have been pouring concrete to equal the length of 477 AT&T Stadiums
- 1,200 tons of Texas limestone. That’s enough to build 340 Texas-built Toyota Tundra 1794 Edition trucks!
- 12 acres of glass. That’s almost 50,000 2017 Tacoma truck windshields.
- Landscaping that is tolerant to droughts and uses no fertilizers, chemicals, or artificial irrigation.
- Solar panels which will produce 7.75-megawatts of electricity (the rest will be generated by Texas wind farms)
But that’s not all! Toyota plans to hire over 1,000 new employees across multiple departments.
“We will be hiring more than 1,000 new team members across numerous functions, and our hope is that they will help us in Toyota’s mission to address mobility challenges for everyone, now and in the future.”
For more updates on Toyota’s new headquarters, keep up with the DELLA Toyota in Plattsburgh blog.
“A Campus Grows in Plano: CEO Jim Lentz Gives Sneak Peek at the New Toyota.” N.p., n.d. Web. 17 Oct. 2016. <http://pressroom.toyota.com/releases/plano-hq-campus-ceo-sneak-peek-oct13.htm>.
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