I don’t seem to recall this news hitting the Van-blogsophere, although it seems as though it’s rather old now. Maybe we Vancouver bloggers don’t visit Pacific Centre very much ;)
We all know the endless questioning of why Vancouver has been gipped by Apple for years with the lack of an official store. At one time, it seemed as though the company was planning to redeem our patient waiting with a flagship store, similar to the one in San Francisco. Apparently, it’s going to be *that* cool, but we are getting more than just a typical mini mall store.
We’ve known for a bit now that Pacific Centre had been chosen as the site. The rumour was that it would be in the space formerly occupied by Holt Renfrew. Now, finally, the walls have been put up with the lovely white Apple logo and a link to the Canadian site.
This of course means that construction is officially underway! The walls went up at the beginning of this month. According to the reports, the store will take over two levels!
Now, if the timeline follows that of previous Apple stores in Canada, Vancouver’s could very well be ready in time for summer!
This is all corroborated by Pacific Centre’s website:
We expect the exterior portion of the project to be complete by March 2008 and the interior portion including new store openings by Summer 2008.
We are pleased to share with you that, Apple, Browns Shoes, H&M and Teenflo will be joining the Centre and will reside in the old Holt Renfrew location on the upper level. We expect to announce the other new tenants in the coming weeks. On the lower level Geox and Jacob are now open.
Wow! Well I’ve been there twice recently, but I didn’t visit the upper level so I guess that’s why I didn’t see it. I found out about this awhile ago and was reminded recently when I saw job ads for the store. I imagine it’ll give the Sony store some competition, eh? Not to mention there’s a Source/CC on the corner and a London Drugs across the street.
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Not sure why I haven’t switched to Mac, but I am happy that the store is under construction. My good friend J will want me to come by and visit with him (he’s a total MacGeek).
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About time! Now if they would bring the iPhone to Canada. I know, I know – it isn’t in their hands. C’mon Rogers!
Can’t wait. Hopefully they launch the iPhone here too when it opens. Looking forward to buying stuff from salesmen who actually are familiar with apple products unlike futureshop and best buy.
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hoo-ray! I hate to slag the other apple stores in town, but their service and crap attitude will not be missed. nothing like actually trying the product before buying it. I hope they have a real service dept as well.