Apple Store Vancouver (all but) confirmed

If anyone here uses Facebook, I've created a group for discussion of the inevitable Vancouver Apple Store:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2379884133

They should totally put it in that massive hole next to SEARS on Granville, haha! Seriously, though, they should replace the 'community' portion of the Woodwards development with the Apple Store. The NGO's don't need that space and it'd be right in the heart of the eastward expansion. With all those great new condos and SFU's Arts College, it totally makes more sense than run down, crime-ridden, drug-invested stuff that already there.

I can only hope. This rumor has come up before and not panned out. Vancouver suffers under some terribly out of touch and uppity resellers (though Claire at Simply is the exception - he's gone the distance and more for me without ever being pushy or a jerk).

The stores here are pretty dated, and as such haven't been able to redesign around the clean and simple aesthetic that Apple has become known for in the last 10 years or so. I doubt there's room in the market for 3 resellers and a corporate store, but given the number of Macs I see here (I've only seen more in SF), there just might be.

About damned time! Freakin' Apple has a very outdated list of shops / service centres in Vancouver. Finally there will be a "mothership" for us to adore. ;)

I believe the store will be mid-block, between the NE corner of Dunsmuir and Granville and NW corner of Dunsmuir and Seymour. This makes sense, as it will be right across the street from the
primary downtown skytrain station (Granville, which now has a north facing entrance), and right beside a technical
trades college (BCIT), and steps away from one axis of the main
pedestrian mall/shopping district (Robson/Granville), and also just one block from the financial district on Howe. It's a great location.

Well it's not like Toronto has very good locations. The one I went to was in some mall.

Downtown real-estate is hard to come by, especially for a computer store (even if it is Apple). At best, they'll put it on 4th Ave Kitsilano/Point Grey area, but it'll probably end up in Metrotown.

I wish we could see some love in Vancouver, USA. The three Portland locations are still long enough a drive to deter me.

Finally! Toronto gets has how many by now?!

There were rumours that the store was going at Granville and Dunsmuir, possibly part of the refurbished Pacific Centre. Also, I believe it's supposed to be a flagship of the Canadian stores, so hopefully we'll get something similar to the big one out in SF. Can't wait for some official news!

I can't wait...I want to shop at a Apple Store in Vancouver.

Finally! I can't wait to get a proper Apple Store here! I saw a couple in New York (including the cube) and was very impressed.

The only place I shopped at before was called Macstation, a shitty little retailer that sells Apple products above MSRP and had the nerve to sell me a used, defective macbook claiming it was new (and it was $50 extra!)