Apple Store coming to Knoxville?

There is DEFINITELY an Apple Store coming to Knoxville. I just came back from the West Town Mall and saw the same black construction wall as the previous commenter - only now there's a nice, big apple logo and the text www.apple.com.

There are still no details regarding an opening date.

And honestly, Knoxville's not so big that I care where it is, the mall, Turkey Creek or downtown. Any of those location are a lot closer than Nashville or Atlanta.

I'm just amazed Knoxville is lucky enough to get one. What's next? Hazard Kentucky?

I actually live in Knoxville, Around Sequoyah Hillls and I recently went to the mall (saturday, March 9, 2006) and the pottery barn actually has the generic "simon mall, more choices coming soon--pottery barn" but the apple store , where the back in time store used to be, is now a nice black wall, which is fairly large, but again, as of saturday ,march 9, there is no apple logo or other, however the front desk has a brochure of some type reffering to the job possitions of apple.
hope this helped some
-Mac

In response to utprrthd, I think I may have had the Pottery Barn location mixed up in there.

In response to knoxsharp!, I completely agree about turkey creek and I do think that West Town is a far better location, mainly due to it's central location. And while I also do think that it would be far more progressive, and ever more Appleish, to put the store downtown where all the real action is these days, I beleive their logic is that having it there would pull too much away from the already healthy sales from UT's University Center Computer Store who is an Apple Campus Store as well. Which is too bad in a way, would have loved to see them really ignite the action downtown, but still, at least it'll have a movie theater soon :)

Please open more stores in Canada Apple! I hate clicking on the retail portion of Apple.ca, because it takes me to the single page of our lone store in Toronto. And Toronto bites. The west is where it's happening.

I agree with Knoxsharp, Turkey Creek is the most disgusting place in our city. The upper class from the People's Republic of Farragut would drive inwards to go to an apple store. However, students at UTK are highly unlikely to make the trek out to Turkey Creek.

Ugggghhhh.... knoxbro's, besides the fact that Turkey Creek is the very definition of New South Sprawl Stain, it's not even central! Even if we could overlook the fact that the entire development was built with complete disregard to the sensitive environmental area that was completely disrupted, it's sooo not Knoxville but Farragut... West Town is central and safe. If Apple wanted to be progressive... they would be downtown where the new action is!

I agree with #11, who is coincidentally my brother...

This will be great for my parents. I have been a mac user forever and I have been trying to get them to switch. Their big problem was there isn't a location that is remotely close to them.

Maybe they will make the switch now?!

I live in Knoxville, and if you ask me, Apple is making a mistake putting it in West Town Mall, Turkey Creek is a far better location for it to be located at, and is much more visited and accessible.

We really need one in KY. Louisville would be the most likely candidate, but I think Lexington be good too. It is a college town with a gagillion students using iPods (I know, I teach them) and a pretty good awareness of the Apple brand.

Apple store for Kentucky!! Although in all honesty, Louisville does me no better than Cinci. Same distance.