More Portland Apple Store drama

Calgary is getting one at Chinook Center. Will likely open in the next six months.

I don't see why the minimal design of the Apple Store would offend. Do they want it to look like a quaint little village?

Too bad the Landmarks Commission wouldn't take their heads out of their asses and consider how much traffic and business the Apple Store will attract to the area.

Wow, #29, Canada realy needs some more Apple stores. I live in Dallas, and we have 3, but none of them are good stand alones: 2 in malls, the other a small building that Apple didnt even build or remodel. I'll give you 1 Dallas Apple store for 1 MBP, please, mars.

There are some Apple stores in malls, so rather than building a new store, why don't they just set up a store in Clackamas Town Center or the Lloyd Center (or even the Westlake Mall in Vancouver, WA)? I know there's a local Apple store right by Lloyd Center, so there could be a concern there, but there are other options. Is Apple really intent on having a building of its own?

Not sure why this is such an issue for Portland. I know that area has been building up and attracting some wealthy people (the Pearl District and NW 23rd area being very trendy). Apple would fit right in there. The traffic is also very attractive, I bet. Hence, the proposal to build minutes away from the other store mentioned in an earlier post.

Also, if you're a tech person, we have intel, Nike, and now Laika which just purchased 30 acres in Tualatin and will have a campus built within two years , hiring 400 employees to fill it. I would say those are some pretty big employers.

It definetly sucks to not be able to pump our own gas and the liberal policies of F-U to everyone else in the country is sort of annoying, though. :P

Build it or don't. I try and stay away from that area anyway. Too busy.

Lots of misinformation here. 23d is not a residential street. It is commercial and always was. The hospital isn't at the end; it's right in the middle. The block for which the Apple store is proposed is a mess -- a seventies medical building, a vacant eighties-vintage retail building (that the Apple store would replace), a nondescript building housing a mediocre chinese restaurant, a parking lot across the street with a convenience store at the back of it. High standards for Apple to meet! The commission's decision leaves the street and the neighborhood poorer, without even considering the non-architectural benefits of an Apple store (by which I mean the store's contents and user-friendly atmosphere).

Gusto/Jared Blake: Apple does not need to have retail presence to put the local resellers out of business. All they have to do is not renew the local store's resellers licence (they did it here in San Francisco). They can do that from Cupertino.

I'm sure all the other merchants in the area will be so happy to avoid the inconvenience of all the additional customers that an Apple store would bring to the neighborhood.

Local government: doing all it can to impede the economy.

-jcr

Bring Apple stores to more places in Canada, we need them here. The only Canadian city to have an Apple store is Toronto. I live in Calgary (very far away) so getting the Apple store experience is impossible. Stop crowding the stores in the states and bring at least one store to Calgary, i'm sure it would be worth the investment. FYI: the local reseller here in calgary absolutely sucks, bad customer service, and they never have anything in stock. Many of my friends have altogether stopped buying their macs there and now buy on Apple.ca.

I live in Portland and know the corner that's in the mockup there (SW corner of 23rd and Glisan). The building that currently sits on that corner is a white box building, like that early 90's conservative modern look, it was a Bridal shop I think. This apple design wouldn't be much of a departure at all, I can name 3 other buildings in a 4 block radius that fit the area's "style" much less.

I'll tell you this after living here for a while now, the "Good People" of Portland really aren't so good.