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Arkansas to Become 44th U.S. State With an Apple Retail Store

You are Stupid, Not Little Rock

willmtaylor said:
It's idiotic that Little Rock, and not Northwest Arkansas, where there's multiple major international businesses and several universities, is getting an Apple Store. Simply idiotic.
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There are 4 universities within 30 minutes of Little Rock. And the promenade is located in the richest part of Little Rock. Smart move Apple. :apple:
 
Lesser Evets said:
I understand West Virginia: most people aren't making great money there.

I understand Wyoming, Montana, Vermont, South Dakota: not any serious population centers.

I don't understand North Dakota: 200,000 people in the Fargo-Grand Forks corridor including a good amount of MS workers who love their Apple products.

They'll probably put one there in a few years.
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Heh We have one in Iowa for cry-an out loud!
 
There was a reason Apple wanted to wait on the Promenade and this only shows that they really wanted it at this site. At any time they could have moved to Park Plaza/Midtown. But they didnt and now LR will have an Apple Store.

Im really excited about this. Great news for Little Rock, the Promenade and Arkansas.

As for NWA, its only a matter of time. But we have to understand the area isn't nearly has hot as it once was. We got really full of ourselves thinking we could see things such as a Nordstorm, Cheesecake Factory, Etc show up at the Pinnacle Hills Promenade. Memphis doesnt even have a Nordstorm. But they will come, we just have to be patient.

And btw, while things were slow at the Promenade at Chenal, They have managed to land Anthropolgie, JCrew, Apple, DSW, and an IMAX. Its only a matter of time before this center will fill up. Chenal has tons of disposable income.
 
true777 said:
Weird to put it at the Promenade in Chenal -- a dead outdoor mall out in the 'burbs where half the stores are unoccupied and I've never seen more than 3 people walk around.

There's an elegant, hugely popular indoor mall called Park Plaza that's centrally located (close to the university, the best residential neighborhoods, and the downtown area -- it's also the only mall in LR that has the good department stores). Park Plaza would have been infinitely more suitable than the dead Chenal Promenade. Weird choice, Apple usually gets it right.
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I would say Park Plaza is a FAR cry from being called elegant. I'd venture closer to "barely not ghetto."

I think the strip with pottery brparn is a good fit, but parking there is miserable and I can't remember if there's an open space.

Why little rock and not northwest Arkansas? No idea, but as a central arkansan, no complaints here! I know there is a decent pull of college students in the area as well as some corporations.
 
I'd be more excited if this weren't almost exactly as far as you could get from me and still be in Little Rock. I mean, it beats driving to Memphis!

iJon said:
Check out MegaByte Computers in Fayetteville. They are an Authorized Specialist and Service Center. They pretty much deal with everything besides iPhones.
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Aha! I figured you were on here somewhere.
 
You'd be surprised how many people here in West Virginia use Apple products. We either have to get them from Best Buy, or drive to Columbus Ohio. I think a small store would do well, since most people don't like going to Best Buy.
 
Isn't central America known to have, let's say, extremists of God and that anyone who doesn't listen to him has to die or something like that?
 
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That's pretty good. But Apple already sells at Best Buy and online so its really not that big of a deal. Major cities actually have multiple Apple stores already. I know here in Miami, we have four and counting. All of them are always full.
 
UltimaKilo said:
That's pretty good. But Apple already sells at Best Buy and online so its really not that big of a deal. Major cities actually have multiple Apple stores already. I know here in Miami, we have four and counting. All of them are always full.
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Yea but best buy isn't anywhere near an apple store.
 
Austinjwalker said:
I would say Park Plaza is a FAR cry from being called elegant. I'd venture closer to "barely not ghetto."

I think the strip with pottery brparn is a good fit, but parking there is miserable and I can't remember if there's an open space.

Why little rock and not northwest Arkansas? No idea, but as a central arkansan, no complaints here! I know there is a decent pull of college students in the area as well as some corporations.
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You obviously haven't been to Park Plaza. Like, ever.

Note: seriously, it was nice even before receiving a $30M renovation a few years ago.
 
AudiA4 said:
You obviously haven't been to Park Plaza. Like, ever.

Note: seriously, it was nice even before receiving a $30M renovation a few years ago.
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I dunno, being surrounded by high-rise apartment buildings does lend a sense of class to it for me...

I'll give you that it's better than the other ones in the area, but on an objective scale, I don't know if I'd go all the way to "nice".
 
chaoticbear said:
I dunno, being surrounded by high-rise apartment buildings does lend a sense of class to it for me...

I'll give you that it's better than the other ones in the area, but on an objective scale, I don't know if I'd go all the way to "nice".
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I'm an architect. I travel A LOT. It's comparable, and even nicer than many (indoor) malls Apple currently occupies. To argue that it isn't even "nice" is incredulous.

p.s. It's "subjective" not "objective" to lend an opinion...but I quibble.
 
I did not mean "subjective". I'm positive that one could create metrics to judge different malls against each other: size, total revenue, neighborhood, variety of stores, and any number of other things. That's what I was referring to. I am aware it's quite the resource as far as malls in Arkansas go, but I feel that nationally we don't have much to brag about.

I can't comment on your other point; I've never been to an Apple Store in an indoor mall before.
 
chaoticbear said:
I did not mean "subjective". I'm positive that one could create metrics to judge different malls against each other: size, total revenue, neighborhood, variety of stores, and any number of other things. That's what I was referring to. I am aware it's quite the resource as far as malls in Arkansas go, but I feel that nationally we don't have much to brag about.

I can't comment on your other point; I've never been to an Apple Store in an indoor mall before.
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Understood. But "subjectively" from a quality/design/facility standpoint, I would maintain it's well above average, and certainly on par with most new(ish) indoor malls - the admittedly few that have been built in the past ten years.

Regardless, I suppose this reinforces their clear preference for "outdoor" venues...in spite of the few indoor mall locations they have.
 
AudiA4 said:
Understood. But "subjectively" from a quality/design/facility standpoint, I would maintain it's well above average, and certainly on par with most new(ish) indoor malls - the admittedly few that have been built in the past ten years.

Regardless, I suppose this reinforces their clear preference for "outdoor" venues...in spite of the few indoor mall locations they have.
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Actually, you'd probably be a good person to ask - where DO they have mall stores? The footprint of the ones I've been in seem like they'd take over anything but the largest of malls, except maybe the one in Memphis, which could reasonably fit.
 
Regardless, I suppose this reinforces their clear preference for "outdoor" venues...in spite of the few indoor mall locations they have.
 
chaoticbear said:
Actually, you'd probably be a good person to ask - where DO they have mall stores? The footprint of the ones I've been in seem like they'd take over anything but the largest of malls, except maybe the one in Memphis, which could reasonably fit.
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Well, both Oklahoma stores are in malls (Tulsa, OKC), Des Moines, Dallas...quite a few.
 
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