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.
Downtown Brooklyn Finally Arrives [NY Sun]
Real Estate Round-Up: 10/24/07 [Brooklyn Eagle]
“Anywhere on Fulton St between Adams and Nevins would be great. There is mucho foot traffic and maybe white people would actually start shopping there”
I’ve seen white people shop on Fulton Street. Recently.
Great location – every subway line running into Bklyn passes nearby. A branch of TekServe would be great, too.
1:15,
there is an apple store outside Manhattan already. It is in the Staten Island Mall. I don’t see why people are so excited about an Apple store in Brooklyn. I think the area near Atlantic Yards is the perfect location especially if it included an upscale mall, which is where most Apple stores are located.
Having Mac service available in Brooklyn would be great, but I’d be much happier with a Brooklyn branch of Tekserve.
if there is going to be an apple store outside manahttan, this makes more sense than any of the other frontrunners. keep it comin.
11:04 wrote “There are several empty storefronts and some dillapidated buildings there that could be utlizied for retail. ”
Where? I walk along Fulton Street with some frequency and I don’t recall seeing very many empty storefronts.
Totally agree that Fairway is one of the few places that stocks both fancypants gourmet and organic as well as regular old grocery products. And their prices are good too. I just widh they would build some stores that are a little more manageable in size and scale for the typical city shopper… Their megastore in Red Hook is so overwhelming, I can’t bear to shop there. Would love a smaller one in downtown Brooklyn, though.
11:48: FAIRWAY IS IN RED HOOK!
Apparently, a Red Hook resident friend of mine tells me it’s amazing amazing amazing — tons of speciality foods, vast cheese department, and just the most interesting produce available. Parsimmons for god’s sake.
Dear PC victim 11:46 (I feel for ya, dude): Apple stores are not understocked. They’re just beautifully, cleanly merchandised. Stock is kept in the back or underground. And yes, they don’t cater to the PC crowd–you guys have a zillion places to buy accessories, etc. Like Best Buy. We don’t. Apple stores’ usefulness speaks for itself–I’ve never seen an Apple store that wasn’t packed with shoppers, not just for the computers, but for iPods, etc.