Moving the Apple Store a few blocks closer to the Loop will make it that much easier for downtown worker bees to do mid-day computer repairs. I like the Hong Kong/IFC comparison -- this will be all about the glowing glass, both at plaza and river levels.
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Originally Posted by wierdaaron
if they could fill in that lower level courtyard and bring the structure all the way out to the water, but I bet that would require thousands of agencies to approve.
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As long as doing so kept the staircase and walkway, why not? The riverwalk there is private, with a public easement. Enclosing a bit of space there would keep the amount of open space the same, but it'd be moved to the plaza level from the riverwalk level. This area was used as rentable square footage before, but it was outdoor dining for the food court.
The current store is 30,000 square feet, and the articles I've seen place 401's old food court at 18,000 feet. Anyone want to hazard a guess as to where the additional square feet will be? Maybe there's some loading docks along Lower Michigan that can be pressed into service, or maybe Apple's hidden upstairs seminar room is moving into the tower?
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Originally Posted by sentinel
I think what Pip meant was why do all of the mobile flagship stores need to be on Michigan Ave? It's the City's (and the Midwests') prime commercial real estate setting, and traditionally for the most exclusive and expensive retail brands
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Oak was for exclusive and expensive; Michigan Avenue is where you put up a billboard to show off to the masses. You'll get 50,000 pairs of eyes a day on Michigan, some of which you can peel off to show off the latest gizmo. Whether the sale closes that day or not is immaterial; s/he can buy online or back in Wauwatosa. The point is to get the idea ("I should buy a new phone") into the tourists' brains during a time when they're already primed to think "I should buy..."
(digging way back upthread)
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Originally Posted by munchymunch
Yes this better not be short little turd. Which is what Mecerich seems to only develop based on there website.
The article did mention they might want join up with developer here, to add residential, and hotel. This is pretty much a must do, so can we get something really big?
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Perhaps you didn't notice their just-completed
three towers at Tysons Corner Center, or that they tried to
boldly stick it to Santa Monica's legendary NIMBYs?
Speaking of un-creative owners, I'm more worried about
a private-equity landlord sitting on Wicker Park Commons' vast parking lot. Apparently, the sale only included the existing ground-floor retail, not the office building or the property between Division and Milwaukee, but there was still a lot of turnaround potential there.