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There's no reason to think The Michigan Avenue store will remain open once this store is ready. It's not a great location, or a particularly good store.

Not a great location? How many people pass that location per day on foot alone? Every store on that location is typically a corporate flag ship store.
 
Yea, it looks like they took a photo and then photoshopped it to add in the Apple Store as well as added some people to make it more interesting; not some nefarious attempt to exclude people by only rendering white people.

Yeah, sorry, wasn't intended to mean there was anything nefarious... just typical corporate photoshop stuff.
 
Revisiting this article in 2019... “Wow! I see what happened here.”

-a designer from Chicago
 
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