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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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The management of the Crabtree Valley Mall in Raleigh (NC) has announced the June 24th grand opening of the Apple store there, six months beyond its scheduled opening date because of an unknown glitch. The store along U.S. 70 north of the city was first ID’d in Dec. 2004. Flooding of the mall parking areas [...]

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Apple will today present a revised design to Boston’s Back Bay Architectural Commission for a proposed retail store on Boylston Street, after enduring criticism of its original design from the Commission back in March. A story on the Boston.com Web site quotes architect Stephen V. Miller of McDermott saying the company is presenting different ideas [...]

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A second round of storefront designs for a future Portland (Ore.) retail store received equal criticism from the city’s Historic Landmarks Commission as the first design, even though it dropped the company’s trademark stainless steel façade. Architect Jeff Stuhr presented the proposal for advisory review by the Commission yesterday, the first step in receiving approvals [...]

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The Memorial City Mall (Tex.) store will open this Saturday, June 17th, with the usual sweepstakes and T-shirts.

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Why would an authorized Apple reseller commit to spending $10,000 a month for five years on a space in downtown Santa Barbara (S. Calif.)? That question begs an answer with the discovery that the city’s Historic Landmarks Commission has received an application (pdf) from local architect Doug Keep to modify the entryway of 716 State [...]

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