“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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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 !