New Apple Store coming to London's Covent Garden

This has been in the works for months, I live around the corner from the store and it was originally meant to open earlier in the year. As the above poster said, the upper floors are supposedly housing the European HQ.

Speaking to a friend who works at the neighbouring Covent Garden Opera House, they're going to be making a big deal of the opening with opera singers etc. Being a 1 minute stroll from an Apple Store doesn't bode well for my bank account though (also doesn't bode well for the nearby authorised Apple dealership, Albion, based on the Strand which is a minutes walk from the new store).

Some more pics of the site, really goto show the size of the building.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/hobbs_pics/4788929885/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/hobbs_pics/4788992677/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/hobbs_pics/4789625072/

Absolutely! Come on Apple, give us a store in Edinburgh.
That said, I heard recently that they already have their eyes on a location here but that the current lease-holder won't let go of it. Wouldn't tell me who it was though.

No Apple, not London, the South needs one. Bournemouth needs one really badly. Especially Castepoint. That would be a killer!

Well the new apple store in dc is about 5 miles from my house but it would take about an hour via public transport and walking

http://pdf.ifoman.com.s3.amazonaws.com/coventgarden_sept_drawings.pdf shows floor plans and office spaces above

Apparently from what I have read the upstairs floors will house Apple European office

The English have plenty of stores already

I believe that's the same location where Doc Martens Store was, the the Oakley Store Was. Gee, I wish Apple better luck than Doc Martens and Oakley had in that building! I wish they had chose Canary Wharf - it would have fit in well with all the glass and steel and modernism!

Oh my god! Have they renamed The Nag's Head to Nag Nag Nag? I used to drink in that old pub quite regularly, bet it's gone all trendy now.