From the monthly archives:
Thanks to Eric for the panoramic photos of the site for the future Crocker Park (Westlake, Ohio) retail store, showing a giant empty space among several other completed buildings and open stores. Based on the lack of construction, a grand opening is at least one year away.
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Carolina Hurricanes hockey players Eric Staal (l.) and Cam Ward (r.) appeared at the Fifth Avenue (NYC) retail store on Thursday, posing here with the Stanley Cup underneath the store’s glass cube and stairway. The Stanley Cup is awarded to winner of the hockey league championship series each year. Like other celebrities who have visited the store, the two also contributed a list of their favorite music artists for inclusion in the iTunes Music Store’s playlist collection.
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Thanks to the Boston.com Web site, we now know what Apple has proposed for a Boylston Street store in that city. It’s a duplicate of the rejected Flatiron store in New York City: a three-story, all-glass façade floating away from the structure, and a floating white Apple logo. But if you study their photo of the rendering more closely, you’ll see it’s really a version of the Fifth Avenue store cube.
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Apple’s Web site has officially announced the July 1st grand opening of the Stamford (Conn.) and West Town Mall (Knoxville, Tenn.) retail stores.
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You’re aware that an important feature of Apple’s retail stores are the wooden display tables and counters custom made by Fetzer’s Inc. But the carpenters’ talents range much wider than furniture, as the new Crabtree Valley Mall store demonstrates–the local fire code must include an alarm pull-station requirement. Right inside the front door of the Apple store, mounted on an elegant wooden Fetzer’s pedestal, is a red-colored pull station with a clear plastic protective cover. Similar fixtures are also at the Chestnut Hill and Derby Street Shoppes retail stores. Also check jstrickland’s other photos of the store for an excellent example of the current store prototype: very narrow but deep, POS at the rear, and two small tables with two iMacs each at either end of the POS for the ‘kids’ section.
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The Web site for the Crocker Park mall in the western Cleveland (Ohio) suburb of Westlake has “Apple Computer – Coming Soon” among their list of stores. The retail space is just one part of a huge, $480 million office, retail, residential and entertainment complex on 75 acres just off Interstate 90. Almost all of the spaces in this outdoor, Main Street-style mall are occupied according to the mall’s map, but it shows Apple occupying a as-yet unbuilt building some time in the future.
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A forum poster has written a long and rather insightful piece on his/her experience in solving an iMac problem, first via AppleCare and then in-person at the Lenox Square (Atlanta) store. Not only that, but the person offers some suggestions on how Genius Bar operations might be improved. Read the post and and make your own evaluation.
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The French weekly retail trade magazine “La Correspondance de l’Enseigne” claims in a short article that Apple has abandoned plans to occupy an historic building on Rue Scribe near Boulevard Haussmann in the near-north retail district of Paris. The company’s back-out is reportedly due to problems in obtaining approval to renovate the building, and also because of the French government’s recent position on digital music and rights management policies. I can confirm that Apple still intends to open a Paris store, so the search for an alternate space must still be underway.
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The Pier at Caesars (Atlantic City, NJ) mall will begin a long, phased-opening this Tuesday when the mall itself will open, but only with certain stores, not including the planned Apple store. Restaurants and nightclubs are set to open after Labor Day, and then other stores throughout the remainder of the year. The Apple store will probably open in late July.
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Apple will open a third store within metro London (UK) near the end of this year, inside the Bentall Centre in the southwest suburb of Kingston Upon Thames. The mall is adjacent to a huge carpark, and features a 4-story, glass-topped atrium at its core. It will the third store within the city, 12 miles from the city-center Regent Street store and about 15 miles from Brent Cross. It will be the ninth store in the UK.
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The newest Apple store in Japan will open in the northern city of Sapporo on June 24th at 10 a.m., with the usual sweepstakes and T-shirt give-away. It will be the seventh store in the country.
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The Stamford Town Center (Conn.) retail store will hold its grand opening July 1st, along I-95 in one of the nation’s wealthiest areas.
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Apple’s architect is headed in the right direction for the proposed Boston retail store, according to members of the Back Bay Architectural District Commission at Wednesday’s hearing to consider a second round of designs. Most importantly, the Commission approved demolition of the building at 815 Boylston St., a step that Apple said was required for them to locate a store at the address. But, the Commission wants the architect to perform even more revisions to the store’s design, including reducing the amount of light that emits from the storefront. “We like the direction it’s going in. You’re on a great track, keep going,” said commission member John Christiansen. The 3-story store would feature a spiral-glass staircase, roof-top garden, and suspended, back-lit Apple logo, sounding much like the new Fifth Avenue design. Read the full story here.
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The grand opening Overnighters bow down to fakecake, a member of the Suicide Girls blog who is attempting to spend an entire week inside the Fifth Avenue (NYC) retail store, and is blogging her experience. The respite began at 11:24 p.m. Tuesday night, and so far is just 15 hours along. But, oh..so much has happened! Check the photos of the complicated overnight cleaning process, and the mysterious green slime. Read the blog…bottom to top…funny stuff! [As of Saturday afternoon, the last entry was timestamped Wednesday at 7:20 p.m., less than 24 hours into the adventure. She apparently didn't make it.]
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I have never heard any rumors of an Apple store in Puerto Rico, but that hasn’t stopped over 400 persons from signing an on-line petition asking Apple to locate a retail store there. The petition notes that Sony is, “opening ‘mini stores’ (booth like) in every mayor mall in the island and they are expecting millions in sales this quarter, specially on VIO laptops and their music player, which got and island wide promotion.” It suggests the Plaza Las Americas mall as a location, a huge 1.9 million s.f. mall in downtown San Juan. The mall boasts of an average $700 per square-foot annual sales (high), and has almost 350 stores and restaurants, anchored by Macy’s, Sears and JC Penney. The petition pleads, “Please come and open an Apple Store or even a mini store, you will not be disappointed.”
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