Apple will fill in coverage of its retail stores in the area south of Puget Sound (Wash.) when they locate a store inside the Tacoma Mall in that city. The mall is located along Interstate 5, and has just completed a 100,000 square-foot lifestyle expansion where Apple may locate. The Seattle region is now served by four Apple stores, but they are all along the eastern rim of Puget Sound and at least 25 miles from Tacoma. The store could open by July 2009.
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About time! Washington State has had fewer Apple Stores per capita than many other regions.
The Tacoma Mall store will probably do well, as it will serve the military families in the South Sound area (Fort Lewis, McChord AFB), the government employees in the Olympia area, and much of the Kitsap County residents that find it less expensive to drive around and pay the Tacoma Narrows Bridge toll than to pay round-trip ferry service. Now if they will just open a store in the Spokane area!
I hate to sound like a broken record, but why isn’t there one in Downtown Seattle? Portland and Vancouver, BC both have an Apple store downtown. I’m sure they’d like to open one, but they’ve let several VERY good locations slip recently. They let Barney’s take the Pottery Barn spot on 6th & Pine in the corner of Pacific Place, for example. All of the current locations are terrible for someone who has to ride the bus (including University Village).