Apple May Set Up Shop at The Edge After All
In addition to dropping the news that 30 potential buyers showed up for tours this weekend, Edge developer Jeff Levine revealed this teaser to the audience at the Brooklyn Real Estate Roundtable yesterday: An Apple store is still a real possibility for the ground-floor retail at the massive Kent Avenue development. “There’s no deal,” Levine…
In addition to dropping the news that 30 potential buyers showed up for tours this weekend, Edge developer Jeff Levine revealed this teaser to the audience at the Brooklyn Real Estate Roundtable yesterday: An Apple store is still a real possibility for the ground-floor retail at the massive Kent Avenue development. “There’s no deal,” Levine said, “But we are talking and they are interested.” He also mentioned that there was interest from some grocery stores.
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AHHHHHH bxgrl Bill Gates never worked for Steve Jobs. MY GOD.
It would be awesome if Apple moved in here because then they will leave the Salvation Army on Bedford alone. Probably one of the reasons Apple wants to locate in Williamsburg is because everyone between the ages of 20 and 40 there owns iPods and Apple laptops. It’s not like they don’t know the zip codes of their customers.
There is a lot of very pricey retail moving into Williamburg all of a sudden. Tracy Feith is opening a store there and Bird says it’s branching into *super* expensive clothing such as Stella McCartney. I know everyone in Williamsburg is a creative director and all that but I don’t believe at all there is the demographic there to support $2,000 outfits. OTOH the owner previously worked at Barneys and Steven Alan so maybe she knows a few residents who will keep the store afloat.
I am dying to try Linux but don’t know which flaovor. I’m actually possibly going to be given amac- I first started on one but I do love PC. Apple’s biggest problem has always been Steve Jobs- he singlehandedly lost the market because he was so proprietary with the code.
My new laptop is running vista and so far I really love it. haven’t had any problems but the newbie has 4 gig ram and a 250gig HDD and a great video card so I’m sure that helps.
Denton- my biggest fear with going to Linux was how I would access and share files from Windows programs- can you tell me about that?
I might try that on the Alienware laptop once I get that upgraded to more ram.
Actually, the interesting thing about Apple/PC is that Bill Gates began by working for Steve Jobs and came up with the first visual interface for Apple. Xerox invented the mouse and gave it toapple because they could see no use for it (and they are still crying over that one.)
This may be a simple marketing ploy on the part of the EDGE but you know what? It will work perfectly for them if they can pull it off…the buzz will be terrific and hipsters are addicted to MAC products plus aesthetically the space will be fantastic.
“Which is why I enjoy posting here a lot. :)”
Haha DIBS what delusions of grandeur you must suffer from my friend:)
“C:/copy/”file”/….., there was no comparison.”
Yeah, that was sure better than that stupid mouse. In fact I miss those days so much today my Dell netbook is being delivered running ubuntu. I’ll get to use the command line all over again!
I’m a life-long mac user (since the days of the Performa 405!) and I would love to have an Apple store near me. I’m always looking for a reason to stay out of Manhattan, but I don’t see myself going to Williamsburg for the Apple store. I’ll stick with the Soho location.
Now…Court and Atlantic is another story. You are at the crossroads of downtown, Boerum Hill, Cobble Hill and Carroll Gardens. More neighborhoods, more money, better subway access and high foot traffic. But even there it’ll never happen.
> “You think in this economy, Apple is going to invest millions into a store in an area with this little foot traffic?’
Agreed. Seems like an unlikely location choice. Too far off the beaten path.
‘and Bergdorf Goodman is moving in too.’
That’s funny!