Apple is planning to open three new retail shops within the main metropolitan areas of Los Angeles, Toronto, and Atlanta, based on constructing permits discovered by MacRumors.
Apple is laying the groundwork for a brand new retailer within the South Bay area of Los Angeles County that might be situated within the Heart shopping center in Torrance, California. Apple filed constructing permits for the brand new location with the town in October, which point out that the brand new Apple retail location might be situated on the primary degree of the mall, between Lululemon and Madewell. The shop might be created from two side-by-side retail areas that had been previously occupied by J.Crew and Chico’s.
Apple’s plans for the shop had been first revealed by Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman again in June. Gurman had gotten his fingers on the Cupertino agency’s retail enlargement roadmap, which was meant for inner entry solely. The roadmap confirmed that Apple has plans to open the shop in March 2024. In fact, that timeframe is topic to adjustment, on account of completion of contracting with development companies, hiring of staff, and different components that might trigger delays.
In the meantime, Apple additionally has plans to maneuver into a bigger new location in Mississauga’s Sq. One shopping center within the Higher Toronto Space. Though Apple already has a retailer within the Sq. One mall that’s been there since 2009, it’s one of many smaller “first-generation” shops
Constructing permits shared by iPhone in Canada in October reveal the corporate has been planning a transfer to an area on the second ground of the mall immediately above the meals court docket that was beforehand occupied by Massimo Dutti. This new location was imagined to open in November however was delayed for unknown causes.
Final however definitely not least, Apple filed a constructing allow with Gwinnett County in Georgia again in Could that exhibits Apple is planning to relocate its Mall of Georgia location in Buford, northeast of Atlanta. Like Apple Sq. One, Apple Mall of Georgia is a first-generation retailer that’s even tinier, so it’s arguably overdue for a transfer to a bigger area.
Whereas the brand new retailer will stay within the Mall of Georgia, the allow doesn’t specify a location inside the mall.
Whereas Apple’s roadmap confirmed the corporate had anticipated to have the brand new Sq. One and Mall of Georgia shops able to open late this yr, the initiatives are taking longer to finish.
In the meantime, in Toronto…
In October, Apple pulled out of the troubled The One retail venture retail improvement venture in Toronto, leaving the positioning with out an anchor retailer — and Toronto with out its much-anticipated new flagship Apple Retailer.
The One is an formidable venture being constructed by Mizrahi Developments that’s been below development since 2016. It’s designed as an 85-story blended residential/retail skyscraper that might be situated on the nook of Yonge and Bloor within the coronary heart of downtown Toronto the place the town’s two largest subway traces intersect.
In 2018 Apple introduced that it might open a 9,000-square-foot retail retailer which might act as an anchor for the retail complicated. It might have been one of many largest (and coolest) Apple Shops in Canada, and the second trendy flagship Apple Retailer within the nation, following Vancouver’s Apple Pacific Heart, which opened in late 2022.
Nonetheless, in February 2022, Apple started threatening to tug out of the venture if sure development milestones and deadlines couldn’t be met to the corporate’s satisfaction. The venture fell into chapter 11 on account of a number of delays in development and a large $1.6 billion debt.
Though Apple Saint-Catherine was Canada’s first flagship Apple Retailer, opening in Montreal in 2007, it retains Apple’s basic facade, whereas trendy flagship shops have adopted distinctive architectural designs to set every retailer aside. In the meantime, though Apple has 28 shops in Canada, the Vancouver and Montreal flagships are the one standalone places within the nation.
Retailer Closings
Whereas Apple continues to be keen to wager on the viability of buying malls, regardless of mall closures round america, it has introduced that it will likely be closing two shops in January.
Apple confirmed will completely shut its legendary Infinite Loop Retailer in Cupertino, California, on January 20. It can additionally shut down its Royal Hawaiian retailer in Honolulu on the identical day. Affected staff at each places might be supplied the chance to proceed working for Apple at different close by retail shops.