The faltering economy has forced Apple to once again switch its plans for a new store in Greenville (SC), and to sign a lease at the Haywood Mall along Interstate 385 on the city’s east side. The mall was reportedly Apple’s first choice for a store back in August 2007, but an appropriate space wasn’t available. The company then jumped to the Magnolia Park Town Center, just two miles away and undergoing a redevelopment. But the project was delayed several times, and began to falter last year. Now the economic downturn seems to have dealt the final blow for the mall–Apple has signed a lease with Simon Property Group Inc. for a space at Haywood Mall. The store could open by early 2010.
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Hopefully they’ll start posting job listings soon as I’d love to try and get a part time position for nights and weekends!
Ooh, yeah, I’m with Shawn. Let’s see the jobs (and the employee discounts)!
Apple has indeed signed a lease for Haywood Mall. Rumor has it that they’ll be going into the old Glamour Shots retail spot. Opening is late 2009/early 2010.
Glamour Shots…? That could be a good location. It doesn’t seem large enough, though.
I have it from a fairly reliable source that Apple is going to take the current location of “The Children’s Place” as well as a neighboring store (in effect occupying 2 locations). Not sure which “other” store it is but according to this map, it would be one of the stores listed in the G section.
http://www.simon.com/Mall/MallDirectory.aspx?id=206
Apparently The Children’s Place is moving into Eddie Bauer which just closed their Haywood Mall location.
The Greenville Apple Store was announced earlier this week.
http://www.gsabusiness.com/news/32512-apple-to-open-store-in-greenville
We have photos of the new location…I have also heard that they have already boarded it up to start the work and will even update our blog with those photos…
http://drumcreative.com/blog