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Third San Francisco Apple Store may be ready by December

Progress updates on the construction of a new Apple retail store in San Francisco's Marina District suggest a building well on its way to completion, albeit at the last minute.

ifo Apple Store reported on Thursday that Apple's third store for the city now has its steel framing as well as the air conditioning and electrical wiring, with the stainless metal lining for the inside already waiting in containers.

With a lot size of approximately 40-feet by 95-feet, the new shop is likely to fall between the company's two existing San Francisco locations in terms of square footage. Ongoing construction efforts are reportedly frantic, as workers attempt to complete the project in time to catch late holiday season shoppers.

A reporter from the San Francisco area blog Curbed noted in one update that the construction company's parking permit expires in mid-December, leaving the company less than three months to park and operate its heavy machinery outside the storefront. Whether or not employees would be ready to open the store so late into the holiday season is unclear, however.

This hurry may have already registered in a complaint from a neighboring store, ifo said, referring to city permits. One local resident griped in July that construction work had begun before 6:30 AM.

For Apple, the venture is also a pricey one, regardless of the location's seemingly limited floor space — the Cupertino-based company and its contractor were reportedly asked to pay $100,000 to remove the Walgreen's pharmacy that once occupied the location, and a much heftier $2.6 million to build the new store.


The Apple store's location relative to the Marina Theater. | Credit: Curbed.
Chestnut store unfinished storefront
The exposed framework of the future Chestnut store. | Credit: Curbed.
Chestnut store unfinished storefront
The location appears to be wider than Stonestown. | Credit: Curbed.

Even with these considerations looming over its head, however, Apple stands to benefit significantly from the outlet's help in satiating the Bay Area's demand for the company's products. During the initial rush to buy the iPhone, San Francisco's Stockton Street flagship and the Stonestown mall stores were some of the first to run out of the handset, and have been home to some of the most frenzied buying during the holidays.



12 Comments

MacPro 19 Years · 19854 comments

Three in one City! Lucky them! I'd love one in Sarasota.

solipsism 19 Years · 25701 comments

Not a very big store from the looks of it.

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Originally Posted by digitalclips

Three in one City! Lucky them! I'd love one in Sarasota.

Maybe you can get one in Best Buy in Sarasota. :-) As for now Tampa is your closest one and there are two new ones just South of Ft. Myers. Surprising that Sarasota hasn't made the list yet.

city 18 Years · 522 comments

Quote:
Originally Posted by digitalclips

Three in one City! Lucky them! I'd love one in Sarasota.

This is Apple's backyard. I think L.A. has a dozen stores: The Beverly Center and Grove stores being about a mile apart.

mrjoec123 19 Years · 223 comments

Quote:
Originally Posted by digitalclips

Three in one City! Lucky them! I'd love one in Sarasota.

I know it sounds crazy to some people to have three stores in one small city (the population is only 800,000 or so here), let alone more than 10 in the surrounding Bay Area, but if you saw how mobbed the Stockton Street store is on a daily basis, you'd understand the need. Plus, the Marina is full of just-got-out-of-college ex-frat Yuppies who have cash to burn. And it's right next to Pacific Heights, Seacliff, and all the richest parts of the city where celebrities who don't want to live in LA live.

They'll make back their money and then some.

MacPro 19 Years · 19854 comments

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Originally Posted by mrjoec123

I know it sounds crazy to some people to have three stores in one small city (the population is only 800,000 or so here), let alone more than 10 in the surrounding Bay Area, but if you saw how mobbed the Stockton Street store is on a daily basis, you'd understand the need. Plus, the Marina is full of just-got-out-of-college ex-frat Yuppies who have cash to burn. And it's right next to Pacific Heights, Seacliff, and all the richest parts of the city where celebrities who don't want to live in LA live.

They'll make back their money and then some.

I am all for that

Hey I was only kidding. I know Sarasota is a dot on the map compared to San Fran.

Maybe Apple could take over a few Walgreens locations here and save money, we have about 300 too many here