Apple Store Watch: Downtown More Likely Than W'burg
This week has seen a couple more strikes against the prospect of Apple setting up shop in Williamsburg. Instead, it’s looking more and more like Downtown Brooklyn will be the spot. At Wednesday’s quarterly Brooklyn Heights Real Estate Roundtable at the Brooklyn Historical Society on Wednesday, Jeff Winick of Winick Realty, Apple’s broker, called the…
This week has seen a couple more strikes against the prospect of Apple setting up shop in Williamsburg. Instead, it’s looking more and more like Downtown Brooklyn will be the spot. At Wednesday’s quarterly Brooklyn Heights Real Estate Roundtable at the Brooklyn Historical Society on Wednesday, Jeff Winick of Winick Realty, Apple’s broker, called the chatter about an Apple store in North Brooklyn “a bad rumor,” while Michael Stoller, writing in yesterday’s NY Sun, reported that Marty Markowitz has been pushing hard for the tech giant to come to Downtown Brooklyn. (Nordstrom’s, Saks and H&M are also all mentioned as potential Downtown tenants.) This comes on the heels of Joe Chan’s suggestion last month that Apple would be the dream tenant for the Municipal Building at Joralemon and Court, were the city to go through with the idea of clearing out the clerical workers currently occupying the space.
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Fairway is designed for people to drive to – a big mistake. I’d love to see their customers walking a Whole Foods in Downtown Brooklyn instead.
Downtown Brooklyn like any downtown area is simply a better choice than a neighborhood thats not centrally located. Fulton Mall could stand some diversity, but – Those stores all apparently do VERY WELL. Livingston Street is ripe for the pickings… It has so much potential.
OT: if I live in the North Slope, is there a bus that goes to the new Trader Joes location?
Yeah, personally, I am loyal to Tekserve, but as a status symbol, an Apple store, especially at Hansen Pl. would be good.
Also, I think Apple seeks out iconic buildings for their stores; the Municipal Building, while potentially nice, probably won’t cut it, especially given the inertia of dealing with the government…
Bring it on – all of it!
I would gladly take a Norstroms and Apple store less than 2 blocks from me, bring it on!
1:33: I made the comment you quoted. I was making a (semi) joke. Yes, I see white folks there too everyday, but there have been several comments on this site over the past month or so, expressing disdain for fulton and inferring that only non whites shop there.
Unfortunately over my lifetime (which has all been spent in Park Slope), I have spoken with many folks (all white) who do refuse to shop on fulton, despite the fact that is a quite viable commercial strip.
And yes, before anyone else says it, over the past several years it has lacked diversity of retail types. But you can still get almost anything you need.
bring apple, fairway, nordstrom, H&M, any or all of above to downtown bklyn — all good! three cheers!
11:28 & 46 — ever been to the Wburg bank space and the Soho Apple store? (yes I know you claim to have been). The soho store is gut reno’d inside, totally modern. Wburg has a old school historic ceiling. like a byzantine cathedral. not appropriate for apple. like putting an apple store in the duomo, WTF? actually, no i’ve never been to europe.