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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Seriously, who goes to a Mac store on a regular basis? I think a proper grocery store and a bank would better serve the community. I’m tired of spending 15 bucks for an orange at all of these fifi “organic markets”
There is already a major mac retailer in williamsburgh though, right on bedford.
rob, if you were a bit older you’d know that apple had devoted followers before they became trendy, before ipods and iphones. Back in the day when apple had click and drag screen icons whilst PC users were still typing lines of C:/copy/”file”/….., there was no comparison.
I don’t go to Williamsburg. I’ve actually never been there. Besides, wine lover lives there.
But you’ll now have to trek to Williamsburg, that’s a big drag!
I’m sure there’s a higher proportionate concentration of Macs and ipods in W’burg, DUMBO and North Bklyn than any other part of brooklyn. Think of the demographics, not the total income.
macs are overpriced, overly trendy wastes of money. they just scream, “hey everyone!!! look at me sitting in starbucks pretending to write america’s next greatest screenplay!!! but im all tapped out of ideas. well, i never really had any. but don’t tell that to mommy and daddy or they won’t send my next check to pay my rent! yeah that’s right. im sitting on myspace at 3pm in the middle of the afternoon hoping people will look at me and think im cool”
baaaaaaaaaaaaaaarf.
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Yeah, but I still don’t get why Apple is going with north Brooklyn, a quick subway ride away from the Meatpacking district store but not terribly accessible to vast parts of Brooklyn that have more people with more money to spend. Assuming Manhattan people don’t make the trek to the Brooklyn store, how big could the north Brooklyn customer base possibly be? For all they’ve changed in the last few years most of Wburg/Bushwick/Greenpoint are still not wealthy.
They just don’t get it. Thinking that an Apple Store in your building adds value is two-year old thinking. The equation has simplified—value, value, value.