“Apple has found the beef in the Meatpacking District, with the hip electronics retailer leasing a whopper of a store at 401 W. 14th St. – its third in the Big Apple,” Lois Weiss reports for The New York Post.
Weiss reports, “The Post has learned Apple is leasing more than 32,000 feet on the cellar, ground and second floor of the 60,000-square-foot, low-rise structure on the northwest corner of 14th Street and Ninth Avenue.”
“Apple already has a store on Prince Street in SoHo and in the General Motors Building Plaza on Fifth Avenue. Earlier plans for a store on 34th Street are expected to be scrapped,” Weiss reports.
Full article, with artist’s rendering of proposed new Apple store at 401 W. 14th Street, here.
When’s the grand opening of this store?
was at the Gm bldg store last eve – and i swear in the 15 mins i was there they sold at least 7 computers (inluding two iMacs). people are really buying macs – back to school will see 2.5 mm units sold
I’d call it ‘gargantuan’. I just love that word. It’s so rare that a get a chance to use it in a sentence.
Cool. But they should add a few here in Europe.
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Rome’s a bit too far from where I live.
Apple can advertise with big stores. Wanna help show the power of the Mac? Currently, a small percentage of distributed computing is done by Macs – somewhere on the order of 2.6%. I know the market share of Macs is higher than that, so let’s show them that we are not as stingy as we currently appear to be.
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I have setup a team here called “Mac Daily News.” The team has donated a year’s worth of computing in the past 6 weeks. It’s growing, but it needs your help.
Using Boinc, you can join multiple projects at a time. There are other good projects to join such as Folding @ Home. Whatever you choose to participate in, we should all donate our spare CPU cycles and show the world the power of the Mac. Currently, we are looking very meager, which makes us look smug to the rest of the world. Show the world that we aren’t.
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32,000 square feet?! This has to be for more than retail
Take the hoardings off the roof
Quevar,
Go sell some freakin’ snake oil door to door, please.
Why do they call it an artists rendering?
It’s the architect’s rendering. We’re quite capable of doing our own renderings thank you.
For god’s sake, put it somewhere else…. enough with NY…
I’m actually kind of surprised that Apple would locate here, as in a lot of ways the Meatpacking District (or MePa, if you will) is pretty much yesterday’s trendy Manhattan area. Acres of tourists and bridge-and-tunnel types.
Oh, I get it. Never mind.
looks like a parking garage
This is getting out of hand
Thorin, get a freaking CLUE!
You want to say “off-topic” then say “Off-Topic“! Only a sub-human (or teen) would call those groups “snake-oil”. You don’t know about them? You should learn before mouthing off. You don’t respect them? Then you are beyond the reach of shame. You have better uses for your spare CPU cycles? Well, to each their own.
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With such a weak $ all of Europe can fly to the big Apple and buy up the Apple store(s)!
Apple’s vice president for Europe, Pascal Cagni, has confirmed that they are going to open an Apple Store in France “at some point”;
… and we’re still waiting here patiently in Berlin.
Magic word ‘there’ as in “there there!”
Jamie,
I don’t know New York myself, but perhaps with a very large Apple Store in it, MePa will become trendier.
For the $400 per square foot rent, that’s per year, right? Surely that can’t be per month! That’s over $12million for the 32,000 sq feet Apple is renting!
Anyone, anyone?
Hello, “DLMeyer” — Nice to hear from you.
NOT.
Now, last time I checked, I don’t HAVE to explain myself to you. Or any of the OTHER douchebags who post self-promoting garbage in this forum! So, yaah, again I say to you “Quevar” . . .
PISS OFF!!!
Happy now, Mr. “I’m Pitiful & Trolling For Business on a Web Forum That Has Nothing To Do Wih My Profession”?
Quevar : “Currently, a small percentage of distributed computing is done by Macs – somewhere on the order of 2.6%. I know the market share of Macs is higher than that, so let’s show them that we are not as stingy as we currently appear to be.”
Dude, I can’t speak for anyone else, but I am not going to run up my electric bill with my computer churning away, wearing itself out sooner than need be and not get reimbursed in some way.
They need to buy (and remove) that billboard outright…
How many times are you going to post that thing? You’re turning it into spam.
Maybe it is.
Dammit, New York doesn’t need another huge Apple store when downtown Philadelphia doesn’t have one! Having to schlepp all the way out to King of Prussia for the real Apple Store sucks!
>”Happy now, Mr. “I’m Pitiful & Trolling For Business on a Web Forum That Has Nothing To Do Wih My Profession”?<
And his trashy dumbassed website has nothing whatsoever to do with Macs, for that matter !
Face it Mr DL MEYER is a troll looking for hits !
He’s also a SPAMMER !
Hey, DL .. Take your spamming link and your self important website somewhere else !
Jerk !
Apple and Microsoft have unfinished business.
Apple deserves its revenge, and Microsoft deserves to die.
They must suffer to their last breath.
That’s a cool building.
It’s also, adjacent to Chelsea, AKA: the Fudge Packing District.
As far as NYC store locations this is s a good, high-income area. All the once-SoHo art galleries and performance spaces have moved there. There are loads of architects and various media designers with offices around there. There are loads of high-end clothing and furniture stores and über-trendy bars and restaurants.
A great location! Unfortunately, it aught to give Tekserve a good boot in the cojones!
As far as Philly goes: wasn’t it W.C. Fields who said: I’d rather be a lamp post in New York than Mayor of Philadelphia!
Thorin wrote: “…post self-promoting garbage in this forum!”
You can say a lot of things about my post, but being self-promoting is definitely not one of them. I’m just trying to get people to help use their Mac to benefit the world.
Man wrote: “Dude, I can’t speak for anyone else, but I am not going to run up my electric bill with my computer churning away, wearing itself out sooner than need be and not get reimbursed in some way.”
Electrons don’t wear out – it’s mainly only using the processor. In terms of your electric bill, it will run when your computer is on and not in use and you can still turn your computer off anytime you want. I wouldn’t recommend anyone to leave it only solely to compute a distributed computing project – that would waste electricity. But, leaving your computer idle while you eat lunch is wasting electricity.
“How many times are you going to post that thing? You’re turning it into spam.”
Sorry for the post – I’ll stop. Until this time, I had gotten a pretty good reception each time I posted it (only twice in the past three weeks by the way). I guess some of the Mac users of this forum are more self-absorbed than I thought.
Hi, Quevar,
As it is obvious that you noticed, this is not the Mac Daily Site for Distributed Computing Advertising.
Despite the best of intentions and nobility of purpose, most any attempt at perceived advertising, no matter how lofty the goal or altruistic it may appear, is usually met with the derision and displeasure you’ve experienced. That it wasn’t unceremoniously removed by MDN tells me that there is a shred of validity, but that doesn’t remove the fact that what you posted was unwelcome to some.
Clearly, there are those who would prefer not to be solicited in any way, shape or form directly within a forum where the comments are as unregulated as they are here. I’ll count myself in that crowd. if you wish to advertise, get the good MDN folks to help you promote it and pay for the privilege, or get them to post a whole story about it (we’ve seen the like before, so I’d be willing to bet they’ll welcome your money).
And, since I strayed WAY off topic of the original story, I like the proposed location.
Distributed computing is both a brilliant and noble idea. My Cube runs folding@home almost 24/7. I look at it as a form of volunteerism. I volunteer my computer’s CPU to the process of determining protein structure from the primary DNA sequence, and I also volunteer a little money each month to the electric bill.
Quevar’s post is not advertising because he in no way gets paid for it. Just do as I do, simply skip past his post whenever you see it.
I’d take distributed computing messages over American political discussions any day.
Thank you, boulderfrog.
Hopefully you are in Boulder, CO – that would be sweet!
@ Bill
Nice to see that someone got the reference.
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