A Campus Grows in Plano: CEO Jim Lentz Gives Sneak Peek at the New Toyota
October 13 2016 - 10:15AM
Business Wire
Automaker seeks more than 1,000 new team
members who will challenge what’s possible
More than 1,200 tons of Texas limestone. Twelve acres of glass.
Seventeen thousand tons of reinforcing steel. And thousands of
construction workers on site daily. For the new Toyota, there’s no
place like home.
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Under a canopy of construction cranes, Toyota Motor North
America CEO Jim Lentz today provided a preview of the new Plano
campus to local media, officials and business leaders. The update
covered construction progress, the organization’s hiring needs, and
a tour of the tech-driven and environmentally sustainable
campus.
And the new site is… well, quite a sight.
- More than 2,000 daily workers have
poured concrete equivalent to the length of 477 AT&T
Stadiums
- There’s enough Texas limestone to equal
the weight of 340 Texas-built Toyota Tundra 1794 Edition
trucks
- The 12 acres of glass equates to almost
50,000 2017 Tacoma truck windshields
- Drought tolerant landscaping will use
no fertilizers, no chemicals and no artificial irrigation
- On-site solar panels will produce
7.75-megawatts of electricity, the rest generated by Texas wind
farms
“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.”
“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.”
Toyota expects the new campus to open in mid-2017.
To best explain the new campus, hiring needs and the impact
Toyota is making in North Texas, the company published the attached
illustrative infographic.
Additional assets, such as renderings, videos, and images, can
be found at www.toyotanewsroom.com.
About Toyota
Toyota (NYSE:TM), the world's top automaker and creator of the
Prius and the Mirai fuel cell vehicle, is committed to advancing
mobility through our Toyota and Lexus brands. Over
the past 50 years, we’ve produced more than 30 million cars and
trucks in North America, where we operate 14 manufacturing plants
(10 in the U.S.) and directly employ more than 44,000 people (more
than 34,000 in the U.S.). Our 1,800 North American dealerships
(1,500 in the U.S.) sold more than 2.8 million cars and trucks
(nearly 2.5 million in the U.S.) in 2015 – and about 80 percent of
all Toyota vehicles sold over the past 20 years are still on the
road today.
Toyota partners with community, civic, academic, and
governmental organizations to address our society’s most pressing
mobility challenges. We share company resources and extensive
know-how to support non-profits to help expand their ability to
assist more people move more places. For more information about
Toyota, please visit www.toyotanewsroom.com.
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