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Apple's New Lincoln Park Retail Store in Chicago Opens Tomorrow
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Man, the Red Line is going to become mugging/bag-snatching central as of tomorrow. Seriously, do not walk into the subway carrying a cute little Apple bag, people. I have two different co workers who've had iPhones snatched out of their hands on the CTA recently.
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environmentally sensitive and minimalist, yet bold design, not always popular
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environmentally sensitive and minimalist, yet bold design, not always popular
as a photographer i commend
Ah, yes there are some nice new stores and trendy bars and restaurants in that part of LP. There can also be, depending on the time of day or night and the amount of yuppie types out and about, some real unsavory characters hanging around. For those who don't have a lot of experience with Chicago, it is a city of neighborhoods, some good, some bad, and often the good and bad border each other.
This part of LP is very popular right now, but I would suggest "leaving with the crowd," before the night life dies down. The city has moved many of the former "Cabrini Greenies" into Section 8 housing about 1 1/2 miles west of the new Apple Store, and apparently not many people have heard about the law banning spray paint, because it's on every bridge and viaduct for miles around, touting one gang or another.
The OP was right; the famous You Tube video concerned an area in Indiana. Still, a little alertness goes a long way. That public transit station has been infested with muggers and thieves for years now, and that's a problem that's not going away anytime soon, especially when there's people with money hanging around there a little too late at night.
Oh, and parking really does suck around there. Doesn't matter, though, because that store will pull in a fortune for Apple, and it looks great.
This part of LP is very popular right now, but I would suggest "leaving with the crowd," before the night life dies down. The city has moved many of the former "Cabrini Greenies" into Section 8 housing about 1 1/2 miles west of the new Apple Store, and apparently not many people have heard about the law banning spray paint, because it's on every bridge and viaduct for miles around, touting one gang or another.
The OP was right; the famous You Tube video concerned an area in Indiana. Still, a little alertness goes a long way. That public transit station has been infested with muggers and thieves for years now, and that's a problem that's not going away anytime soon, especially when there's people with money hanging around there a little too late at night.
Oh, and parking really does suck around there. Doesn't matter, though, because that store will pull in a fortune for Apple, and it looks great.
I agree. It's been a lot of fun watching Apple rise to what it is today. I might add... It's even frightening at times.
As pointed out, there aren't many. I walked by the one in the Fashion Valley mall in San Diego, it's just a few stores away from the Apple Store there. It really looked like a ripoff copy of the Apple Store...same glass window front, same use of a logo above the entry way, same kind of layout. There were the same kinds of areas for shopping, though there were kids playing XBox games so that area was larger. The big difference was not as many people inside, and the style was not as smooth, lots of bright fluorescent lights instead of the warmer lighting in the Apple Store.
It really just seemed like a pathetic attempt to copy the Apple Store...it was almost sad to see how unoriginal it was.
Well, obviously, we have an Apple Store in Lincoln Park....
That would be so cool if Antoine Dodson himself was flown in to say that just as they cut the ribbon!
Please, I work at Chicago and Larrabee and traverse Halsted and Larrabee all the time. Cabrini has one building left with people in it.
Once they ship them all down to Bloomington/Normal, that building will be gone as well.
I stopped by there yesterday, the station looks great. Much better than mine stop (Western Blue). I may stop in there tomorrow (hopefully in a more private setting).
it reflects steve.................. ballmer, always trolling and copying, BTW is it surprising that bill gates exited micro$oft? maybe just in time?
You forgot to include the Verizon store just across the street. The area will be rockin' once Verizon gets the iPhone in a few months.
2 pages and no conspiracy theorists mention the "Easter egg" in one of the pictures....
This is macrumors, isn't it ?
Verizon store across the street.
Wonder when there will be Apple Stores in New Zealand. Judging by the mac install base here in NZ, there will probably never be an Apple Store built here.