AppleInsider Staff
Blueprints and architectural drawings filed with city officials in Brisbane, Australia, reveal that Apple is planning to move forward with construction of a retail outlet located in the historic MacArthur Chambers building.
The latest construction details and revisions filed last week can be taken as confirmation that Apple has not abandoned the Brisbane location, the development application of which was first disclosed in 2011, reports ifoAppleStore.
Apple was thought to have scrapped the store after the project was delayed by a bankruptcy filing from a major contractor in 2012 and reported issues with modernizing the innards of a historic building. The MacArhur Chambers building dates back to the 1930s and was used by U.S. General Douglas MacArthur in World War II as the allied forces' South West Pacific Area headquarters.
According to the revised landscape plan, Apple is planning to remove a number of structures on the sidewalk in front of the store, like a large pedestrian bench, as well as relocate a tree to create symmetry with the store's front entrance.
While the recent filing did not indicate a concrete opening date, it is thought that the Brisbane Apple Store could be operational as early as October.
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I hope so, the new store opens in October, I will be in Queensland for a month of R &R and would love to visit the Brisbane store, If it opens. Great location.
I don't really think they should be opening new stores in Australia, the economy is going to poo down here. It does look like a beautiful location though, there's something about the combination of high tech and old buildings.
I don't really think they should be opening new stores in Australia, the economy is going to poo down here. It does look like a beautiful location though, there's something about the combination of high tech and old buildings.
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I take it you live in Australia too? In which case I don't understand how you could fail to see things starting to go south economically. Why do you thing the RBA has lowered interest rates to 2.5%? That said, if construction is already started, they might as well finish it, because things will pick up eventually.
I take it you live in Australia too? In which case I don't understand how you could fail to see things starting to go south economically. Why do you thing the RBA has lowered interest rates to 2.5%? That said, if construction is already started, they might as well finish it, because things will pick up eventually.
Whilst Australia is an island continent, it is not an island economically but has weathered recent economic storms quite well. So yes, it is easy to see you point of view. Still, doing quite well.