After years of speculation and waiting, there is visible proof that construction has begun on the Pacific Centre retail store in downtown Vancouver (BC). Thanks to Thomas for photos of the black construction barricade on the second level of the shopping mall, which hides a view of the empty space inside. He notes that construction inside makes it appear that the store will be on two levels. Check the photos after the break.
The barricade carries the Web address of Apple’s Canada Web site.
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Anyone have any idea when this will open? How long has it taken other store to open from this stage?
Thomas beat me to take the photos. Recently I witnessed a security guard talking to a couple that had taken photos of each other. I asked why at the Customer Service counter. I was told security don’t like photos taken for copyright/trademark issues and just in case you are documenting the store for layout and inventory before a robbery. The best time to take photos are after the mall doors are open at 9 am and before most of the stores opening at 9:30 or 10 am when thare are few guards and customers to bother you. The ground level mall entrance usually open early is through the back of Blenz Coffee (via the Granville Street right side door) and past Stitch International and Feet First. On March 21 there was an about 3 inches white Apple logo on a clear cellophane sheet stuck to the left door knob security plate. Looking through the crack of the doors and with the light from the windows from the East I could see large portable work platform scaffolds, dusty concrete floor and few pillars blocking the view. No work was happening since March 21 (Good Friday) was a statutory holiday. The Granville Street side of spaces of D034 and D034A-(the more likely by Blenz) (potential street entrance for Apple) are unfinished and open. Lots of scaffolding and construction debris on the closed and barricaded sidewalk waiting to be carted away.
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has anyone who applied at the vancouver store heard back from apple about an interview or anything yet?
