The state of Tennessee has reportedly won a ticket in Apple’s 2012 retail store lottery, with the selection of the Cool Springs Galleria for a store south of Nashville. Apple executives have said the company will open about 40 stores during fiscal 2012, with only about 10 lucky locations within the United States. According to the Cool Springs News, tipsters say that existing tenant Abercrombie will vacate space #1585 within a week. Mall manager CBL & Associates Properties Inc. reportedly declined to renew Abercrombie’s lease, opting to bring Apple to the mall. By April, construction will begin on installing an Apple store within the 9,316 square-foot space. The store, sporting an 85-foot wide storefront, could open by September. The mall sits alongside Interstate 65, and within an upscale region at the top end of Apple’s usual average household income demographic—over $114,000. Update: The Cool Springs News has said Apple will also take over the 4,524 square-foot Brooks Brothers space, for a total of 13,840 square-foot, a truly enormous store for a shopping mall location.
A future Apple store will reportedly take over the current Abercrombie space, about 9,316 s.f., and possibly also the Brooks Brothers space of 4,524 s.f.
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Well, goodie for Nashville.
I guess we here in Oklaunion, Texas, will just have to wait for next year’s lottery =:~(
Bummer.
Apple is taking over BOTH Abercrombie and Brooks Brothers for a total of 13,000 sf. It will be one huge Apple Store!
So I wonder what is going to happen to the independent store that is (was?) in the mall, called MacAuthority?
I can assure everyone we can provide a 13,000 sf store far cheaper in Oklaunion than TN.