Or it's a giant TV screen with an Apple Logo at the moment.
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Apple Shares Photos of Upcoming Tower Theatre Store in Los Angeles Ahead of June 24 Opening
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By far. Apple pulls in over $5500 per square foot annually. Walmart does around $400.
They should have kept it a theater and renovated it instead of turning it into an Apple store.
Wasted space and Apples future into holding on to all these fancy store fronts to sell their items seems costly and unsure future. No more Genus Bar soon probably with un upgradable computers.
Wasted space and Apples future into holding on to all these fancy store fronts to sell their items seems costly and unsure future. No more Genus Bar soon probably with un upgradable computers.
No one has stepped up to keep it a theater and there are more theaters in the area to renovate to turn into a theater if someone wanted to
Just look what is close-by the Apple Theater store, it's another theater that is a retail store that is a real waste of historical use
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Gotta deal with the massive homeless problem first before anything can be transformative in DTLA. That's a tall order beyond corporations.
Apple has collaborated with the local community, leading preservationists, and artists to "thoughtfully preserve and restore the theater’s beauty and grandeur."
Just to house an Apple store? What a disgrace.
Just to house an Apple store? What a disgrace.
Yeah, it was much better as a church, swap meet. and movie set for decades. The restoration is amazing, to bad the theaters on Broadway are either gone or neglected.
Not knowing the history and what the future held is on you.
I live in downtown. I was really worried about apple moving in to one of our theaters. I’m so happy to see they restored it to its former glory!
Who is they. And are they willing to spend the many tens of millions of dollars to rehabilitate it and bring it up to current commercial building codes as Apple has done. And what is "they" going to do with the theater afterwards?
Why is it a disgrace?
You'd be fine with another almost 100 years of decay? Where at some point the city would be required to demolish it?
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Yes it would be great to use this as a theater but this street has the highest concentration of historic movie palaces in the world! 12 counting the Tower. There is the fabulous Los Angeles theater, the million dollar theater, the palace, the Orpheum, and the Ace among others. Great remnants of the single venue theaters. Hard to make cultural uses of all of them.
Love the preservation aspect, not so much the sanctification of a computer shop.
It look very classy, like an art museum. Which is fitting, since Apple products are considered works of art.
Imagine what LA was like back when the theater was going full swing.
How sad what happened, and it's getting worse.
Turn it back into a theater, and move the Apple store to an abandoned Sears building in the mall.
Just disgusting to see a junk retail store in a beautiful historic building. What a shame
Last time i was there was in 2003, and it was really bad by euro standards. How much worse can it possibly be?
Well, given that it was laid to waste and was likely going to be destroyed, I'm glad it was preserved. Watch The Proper People on YouTube (respectful urban explorers with beautiful cinematography) sometime to see how many of these beautiful theaters all around the country are rotting away into piles of garbage. It's really sad and seeing stuff like this makes me happy and hopeful that we can preserve our history a bit better, even if it is repurposed.
