“According to ChicagoBusiness.com, Apple can choose to name the Chicago Transit Authority’s North and Clybourn Red Line station, if the company wishes, in exchange for $4 million in renovations it will provide. The Cupertino, Calif., company also has the exclusive right to buy all advertising space at the station located at 1555 N. Clybourn Ave,” Marsal reports.
“Apple’s initial interest in the location was not related to advertising or naming rights, however,” Marsal reports. “The company plans to open a retail store adjacent to the station, and is said to believe improving the look and quality of the surrounding neighborhood will be a benefit to the “signature location” store it is expected to open next year.”
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Readers “Brawndo Drinker” and “Lynn W.” for the heads up.]
like 3Com stadium
Very nice move on Apple’s part. Always nice to see an Apple Store in Illinois… although Chicago is 5 hours away from me
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Good to see apple improving my Chicago area. I’ll have to go check that stop out sometime…
Nice! That’s a popular stop with a lot of retail in the area. The station definitely needs to be cleaned up a bit. Might have to take the Red Line more now instead of the Brown Line.
It will be fun to see an Apple-designed subway station. It may be very cool.
Hey, an intertube to the Apple store!
– Shining Time Station
– Innovation Alley
– Tech Termini
– Job’s Stop
– Paradise Point
the Pip Stop?
Yes!
I just hope they down change the name to “Apple Store Stop”. That’s just stupid.
I am interested to see if they’ll change any other the design elements of the stop, or just clean it up a bit, because it does need it.
Imagine the video possibilities overhead, like that of Vegas?
Edit: “don’t change the name…”
of course.
Red Line …. Brown Line? …. “definitely needs to be cleaned up” … glad we have a good freeway system.
I love Apple to tears but…….this is better known as fascism. When large private corporations get in bed with the government, bad things inevitably happen. Admittedly, this is a rather small arrangement with the city of Chicago but the principle is rotten to the core. For anyone who has ever studied politics and the economy, having Uncle Sam get in bed with private corporations is a bad, bad thing. There is no such thing as a “free market” when corporations and governments collude. This is yet another sign that we don’t have Capitalism in America – we have Fascism.
Laugh all you want but I’m only pointing out the obvious. I’m certain that Microsoft has been a thousand times worse but, again, it’s the principle that matters.
Next Stop: Clarus the Dogcow Station
The tiles on the wall could be pixels!
“Always nice to see an Apple Store in Illinois… although Chicago is 5 hours away from me”
So there are people in Illinois that don’t live in the Chicago area. Interesting.
iStop. As in, “On my way home I’ll stop at the iStop.”
yes, I’m joking.
@nuclear kid: I hear you, but what it sounds like is this: Apple’s building a new destination store. They want to make it easy for people to get there. They pick a location next to a transit station. Problem: Transit station is a little run-down. Not the kind of vibe that Apple wants for its neighborhood.
Solution: Apple will pay to renovate the station. Taxpayers save $4million, new station is shiny and nice, and everyone is happy. Capitalism works.
How is this a problem?
@Nuclear Kid;
Italy in the time of Mussolini was fascism. The United States is not.
Your tinfoil hat is on too tight.
By your definition, we’ve had facism in the US for a long time. I just want to point this out before all the “OHNOES OBAMA IS A (facist/communist/socialist)” people get in here, because nothing has really changed in the US to make it a facist/communist/socialist state in a mere 9 months.
That being said I don’t see this being a problem that Apple merely wants to renovate a station.
The only thing we can be sure of is that there’s soon to be a subway station that looks better than any of Microsoft’s stores.
I don’t see Apple changing the name of the station.
That said, “Infinite Loop Station” would be a cool name
Too bad Maobama is from Chicago!
Wow. The corporate takeover of society becomes explicit. Those companies could have been taxed 4 million and then the public could have decided what kind of subway improvements they want. Now it’s going to be a giant propaganda wing for Apple. What a shitty world this is.
Obama is a commie and he royally sucks!