The city of Kansas City (Mo.) granted nine square-blocks of the downtown to The Cordish Co. to create a $800 million arts and entertainment district next to H&R Block’s corporate headquarters and the Sprint Center. As part of the construction on the Power and Light District, a strange stainless steel façade has appeared in the 1300 [...]

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A group of anti-capitalist protesters stormed the Regent Street (London) store last Saturday, singing a message to visitors not to spend money during the holiday season. The group of about 20 persons was forced back outside by the store’s staff without incident. However, about 30 minutes later someone from the group apparently returned and left [...]

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Each New York City store has its own personality, according to a consolidated calendar brochure now available in the three stores. The multi-panel, fold-out brochure includes daily and special events for the Fifth Avenue, SoHo and West 14th Street stores during December, but also explains the specific personalities of the stores. Under the banner of “Three amazing [...]

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Apple’s search for the perfect Brooklyn (NYC) store location now includes 345 Adams Street, a city-owned property that was just purchased by Muss Development as part of a future corridor of upscale shops and restaurants. Real estate sources say Apple is among several retailers interested in some part of 40,000 square-feet of space that Muss will convert from [...]

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As the busy holiday shopping season slides into its last weeks, Apple’s store brochures provide a reminder of gifts and giving. The iTunes Gift Cards have a snowflake pattern, a card promotes Apple’s corporate gift program, and an elaborate ProCare package gives members the feeling they belong. All of these items are in addition to [...]

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A black tarp with a white Apple logo has appeared in front of an empty retail space at the Jockey Plaza shopping mall in Lima (Peru, SA), but it belongs to an authorized reseller using the iStore name. The mall in the city of nearly 8 million is the country’s largest, and features many international [...]

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Long-time rumors of an upper West Side New York City store seem to be confirmed by the New York Post, which says Apple will take over the existing Victoria’s Secret store at 1981 Broadway at 67th Street in that city. According to the newspaper, Apple plans to demolish the existing two-story building and create its own [...]

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A large glass partition separating the display sections of the Montgomery Mall (Md.) Apple store shattered for an unknown reason, creating a pile of pebble-sized pieces on the stone floor. Visitor jjsixty6 said he heard a cracking sound, turned and saw the tempered glass partition begin to crumble and drop. He took an iPhone photo [...]

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A group of passionate Puerto Rico Apple enthusiasts have formed a group that hopes to convince the company to locate an official retail store on the island. The iWant MUG has over 940 signatures on a petition, and will hold a rally at the Plaza Las Americas (San Juan) mall on January 8th, where they hope [...]

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Apple’s retail stores in Japan will once again celebrate the New Year with a Lucky Bag event by selling a limited number of bags containing iPod-focused products. This year 10 bags a day are being sold from December 6th to 25th at $312 each. Retail stores will begin selling bags on January 2nd. The bags [...]

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The snow flurries ended, the sun went down and the temperature began to drop again just before the grand opening of the West 14th Street (NYC) store this evening. Perhaps it would have warmed us up if we knew celebs would be attending. The crowd of about 800 on the 14th St. sidewalk began to [...]

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I”ve arrived in line as #5. The first person in line arrived from the Bronx at 2 a.m. after he says he received an e-mail from Apple promising that laptops would be given away to the first 10 in line. The next three men are also here because they heard a radio DJ say there [...]

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Confirmation of six new stores and official statements indicate that expansion for Apple stores in the coming year will be focused on international locations, including Brazil and Mexico. During the Thursday’s press event for the 14th Street (NYC) store, Sr. V-P Retail Ron Johnson told an Engadget.com reporter that there will be a larger number of international [...]

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I’ve arrived in New York City for Friday’s grand opening of the 14th Street Apple store. It was nearly dark when I arrived at 4:30 p.m., temperatures were in the low 30s and there is a very light dusting of snow here and there. Of course, the city is jammed with residents and visitors, and [...]

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Apple officially announced the grand opening of its three-story 14th Street (NYC) store with a press release and a Web page, for this Friday the 7th at 6 p.m. The press release offers no details about the store, but the Web page urges, “Make tracks to the grand opening of NYC’s newest and largest Apple Retail Store.” The [...]

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