Racked assumes that there will be an Apple store, but gets the owner of Kings’ old space to g on record that it won’t be there.
Where Will That Williamsburg Apple Store Finally End Up?
Dusting Off the Williamsburg Apple Store Rumor
08/23/2014 |
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As with Starbucks, if you repeat the Apple-store-is-coming-to-Williamsburg rumor often enough, someday it will come true.
Was the Bagel Store (and Corcoran, and the natural food store, and the vintage clothing store, and the pet food store) space warehoused to create a large retail space when Kings left? Absolutely. Will something big go there? Almost certainly. Will it be a high-end, national retailer? Ditto. Will it be an Apple store? Who knows? Anyone who does is tied down by a NDA three-inches thick. No matter what some random guy said to a clerk at a kitchen store a year ago, I tend to think not. Maybe he was just putting up a smoke screen for the inevitable Williams-Sonoma…
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Maybe things have changed since Tim Cook took over, but I’m pretty sure Apple still has an NDA the size of the Manhattan phone book (if anyone remembers what that is). Any developer who says that he is in “preliminary talks with Apple” about anything is either a) heavily exaggerating or b) unlikely to hear from Apple ever again.
Besides, the next Apple store is coming to Williamsburg.
(Not that an Apple store in Queens is out of the question. But don’t bet on an iconic Manhattan-style store – Apple has hundreds of smaller stores around the country (including Manhasset and Roosevelt Field Mall), and is always opening new ones.)