Apple Sydney Store Unveiled, Opens June 19th

[MacRumors]

Photo by Josh Hill

Apple recently took the wraps off their first Apple Retail store in Australia and officially announced the date and time for the grand opening. The Sydney, Australia store will have its grand opening on Thursday, June 19th, 2008 from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. This means the store will be open in time for the Australian launch of the iPhone 3G on July 11th.

Located at 77 King Street, the three story building is expected to have about 1335 square meters of floor space. Two other Apple Stores are expected to follow: one in Melbourne, and another in Sydney.

Additional photo galleries of the new store can be found here: gallery one, gallery two, and gallery three (by Kenneth Nordahl).

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[Stampyhead]

Awesome! And it's opening so soon too. Congratulations to all the Aussies who have been waiting for this for so long.

[aLoC]

It's a real beauty.

[benmrii]

Looks awesome... grats on Apple Store, Aussies.

[richthomas]

woo! saw this on MacTalk Australia earlier today http://mactalk.com.au/.

although i wont be visiting Sydney anytime soon (yes not all of Australians live in Sydney ) she looks like a real stunner… Apple style

[Abstract]

Wow, it's incredible.



It's even more incredible that some idiot has already rated this story as a "negative". It's currently at 2 positives, 1 negative right now.

[richthomas]

^ are you going to check it out Abstract? dont you live in Sydney?

[vandozza]

ill be in melbourne this weekend, but next month i think i'll make a trip to sydney to have a look at this store, particularly if i can get an iPhone on optus in store

[alphaod]

Looks great; either this store is really big or it looks really big.

[DoFoT9]

yay!!!

it looks pretty gorguz. i will have to check it out this newyears when i go down to sydney to visit the relo's

[Abstract]

Originally Posted by richthomas

^ are you going to check it out Abstract? dont you live in Sydney?

Close. I live in Wollongong, but that's kind of close. It would be really weird for me to just make the 2 hour journey to the opening. It's not a huge store, so if I want to go inside, I'd have to be one of those losers who sits outside for like 2 days just for a free t-shirt. Crazy. I guess it may be worth it if they gave a special Australian Apple t-shirt that said something cool, like "Apple Goes Down Under". It would be a nice Apple t-shirt with a nice double entendre.

Originally Posted by alphaod

Looks great; either this store is really big or it looks really big.

It looks long, but it doesn't appear to have a lot of "girth".

[aLoC]

Originally Posted by alphaod

Looks great; either this store is really big or it looks really big.

It is 3 floors and 14,370 square feet.

[KDN]

I took a flight down to Sydney from Brisbane earlier today to be here at the opening. I'm ofc. doing other stuff down here too..

I'm Kenneth noted in the first post and I can promise that my gallery gets updates during the next 2 days(who does not want to see images of a line of geeks etc.).

Btw, this post is made on my iPhone connected to the apple store wireless.

Ps. Every oz should show up tomorrow for the best apple store opening ever!

[brad.c]

Looks much nicer (and bigger) than any of the three Toronto stores.
Long overdue!

[Booga]

Originally Posted by MacRumors

the three story building is expected to have about 1335 square meters of floor space.

Doh! Couldn't they find a way to add 2 more square meters? That would be 1337, kthxbye.

[BigD58]

WOW! I could seriously live the rest of my life in that store!

[137489]

good for you Aussies.... I hope with a store that size, they have more Apple related software in stock, and you can get customized units in the store. Plus I hope they have more training rooms. Us who have smaller Apple stores can still only buy a few things in the store, and whenever they do their training sessions - the store is so packed it is hard to move around.

I wonder when they will open my Greensboro, NC store.... Everyone (news channels, newspapers, even Apple) said it was coming and is going to be in Friendly Center. It was supposed to open this past spring - but is not yet. I would rather drive 35 min to Greensboro instead of the 1 hr to Durham, although my wife likes that mall.....

Also, I know the Durham store is in an upscale mall, but since Sharper Image went out of business, apple needs to break the wall down and incorporate next door to give a little breathing room....

[chaostik]

Still waiting for one in Ireland.

I believe Apple's corporate European HQ is in Ireland for tax purposes, but they don't seem to think we're worth even one retail store ... ah well, I'll wish on.

[stagi]

Nice looking store

[oyebto]

very nice! though i want a Singapore Apple Store too.. =(

[bytethese]

Having been used to the 5th Ave Apple Store for some time now, I have to say that this store looks GORGEOUS.

[bytethese]

Originally Posted by chaostik

Still waiting for one in Ireland.

I believe Apple's corporate European HQ is in Ireland for tax purposes, but they don't seem to think we're worth even one retail store ... ah well, I'll wish on.

I know! I just visited a few weeks ago and was stunned to find that there was no Apple store there. I hear there's a huge tech boom in the Dublin area and no Apple store? What the eff?

[eqinespecter]

Originally Posted by Stampyhead

Awesome! And it's opening so soon too. Congratulations to all the Aussies who have been waiting for this for so long.

2nd that !.......just up from the Circular Q??

Do the old Manly ferries still function??

"...in memory they flew.."

[benmrii]

Originally Posted by bytethese

Having been used to the 5th Ave Apple Store for some time now, I have to say that this store looks GORGEOUS.

Ugh... that store blows. SoHo ftw.

[bobertoq]

Originally Posted by aLoC

It is 3 floors and 14,370 square feet.

That's huuuge! The Apple Store in my area is about..... half of that bottom floor.