Kansas Apple Store ready to open

THANK YOU APPLE!!! My wish DID come true...no more driving to the plaza and dodging homeless people to drool over apple gear. yay! First and Crate and Barrel, now our very own Apple store...what next? (please say H&M!).

I'm here! 12th in line. Anyone else here?

This store will be excellent if it compares with the New York or London stores. Have you seen this? They are both cited as 100 stores you must visit by Retail Week magazine
http://www.retail-week.com/Fashion/2008/06/100_shops_you_must_visit_2008.html

Well, they won't open one in Topeka until the Cowboy vs. Gangster war cools down a little...no telling when that will be.

Huh, my old manager at Starbucks is going to be the manager of this one...great place to open it; it's gonna be successful there in southern JoCo.

I will drive by and snap a picture for TUAW.... but with my Blackberry Curve :)

but hey, I'm waiting for that CDMA iPhone!

I was approached for an interview to be a Genius at this store, but I had to respectfully decline, as I'm finishing up school in Springfield, MO (where an Apple Store is DESPERATELY NEEDED). I'd love to see what this store looks like inside, though!

I live in Leawood, and I've been following the progress of the store's construction. It's been very quick! The big Apple logo was only put in place 2 weeks ago. It's now lit and the exterior complete. Black paper now conceals the store's interior, but from the size of its footprint, I think the store will be very spacious.

By the way, as a Leawood resident, I'm undeniably a true Kansan. Just check my tax records, driver's license, and Jayhawk flag.

What amuses me is that this shopping center is essential adjacent to the Sprint campus, depending on which of the strip malls it actually refers to.

@XiozTzu, Actually, I believe that technically Wichita is the largest KS population if you only count the KS part of KC. I also believe that Wichita would be big enough to sustain a single Apple store. As a life time resident, I know that Wichita could. We are one of the top 50 biggest cities in the US, according to 2005 or 2006 numbers. With Wichita being the "Air Capital of the World" and how airline companies aren't doing too bad in the current economy, and with the housing market not that bad in Wichita, and gas prices some of the lowest in the country, I would believe that Wichita is a pretty steady place (economically speaking) and that we could sustain an Apple Store. I see many Apple laptops on WSU campus and I know that they are around the other colleges in the area.