Apple planning new Toronto store at Yonge & Bloor [u]

Apple appears to be working on a new street-level store in Toronto, Canada, based inside an 85-story condominium at the corner of Yonge and Bloor, not far from Queen's Park and the Royal Ontario Museum. [Updated with corrected stats]

The condominium, still under construction, is known as The One and being worked on Foster & Partners, a frequent Apple architectural partner, MacRumors noted. Blueprints point to a 9,000-square-foot store that may have a balcony level similar to Apple Union Square in San Francisco.

The documents were first submitted in March 2016, but only later updated to mention Apple by name. The company could still theoretically pull out of any deal — if so it would lose prime downtown real estate, located next to other shops and potentially connected to PATH, the city's underground tunnel system.

Apple currently has four stores in Toronto: Eaton Centre, Fairview Mall, Sherway Gardens, and Yorkdale. A Yonge and Bloor location might better capture downtown traffic, especially since it would attract passers by.

Update: MacRumors has updated its story to say the condominium will be 85 stories, not 82, and that the Apple store will occupy only 9,000 square feet instead of 19,000.

7 Comments

flashfan207 291 comments · 11 Years

About 6 years ago

Awesome! I’ll be looking for this one once it’s made.

JesseWehner 2 comments · 7 Years

Would this be the first Apple Store in Canada that is not in a mall!

maury markowitz 369 comments · 17 Years

My friend told me about this store when the condo started construction YEARS ago. At the time, it consisted entirely of a large hole in the ground that we were looking into from the parking lot on the south side. This is apparently an open secret.

dewme 5737 comments · 10 Years

JesseWehner said:

Would this be the first Apple Store in Canada that is not in a mall!

The Montreal Apple Store is not in a mall.

ipedro 63 comments · 15 Years

maury markowitz said:

My friend told me about this store when the condo started construction YEARS ago. At the time, it consisted entirely of a large hole in the ground that we were looking into from the parking lot on the south side. This is apparently an open secret.

Wrong condo. This building only recently started construction and is still not a hole in the ground, just a cleared dirt lot.

It sounds like you're referring to the building on the South East corner of Yonge and Bloor. That building indeed started construction years ago and was recently completed but it's not an Apple Store. It'll be a Nordstrom Rack. The building in question is on the South West corner and is still in the early stages of prepping the site for excavation. It'll be a couple of years before the tower construction is advanced enough to open the Apple Store in its ground floor retail space.