Stockholm's New City Council Opposes Planned Apple Store at Kungsträdgården

[doberman211]

Here’s an idea that welfare state sweeds can get behind, how about apple provides wifi to the entire park and lets people rent iPads to test out on a one hour limit to bring with them to take photos or whatever they want, and you rent it by signing in with your icloud ID/email so they know who’s renting it out. actually, i want that in my city!

 

[xp84]

A TGI Fridays restaurant is already located on the spot, but the Apple Store was expected to be larger.

TRANSLATION: TGI Fridays, which no doubt looked far tackier than this would, was apparently not a problem for anybody all those years, but when we got wind of this plan we thought we could get Apple to cough up the big bucks in a "deal" to get a plum location like this one and they didn't play ball.

Hopefully Apple's going to tell them to get bent rather than write a big check towards city coffers to smooth this over. It would be a very Jobsian move, he famously wasn't too friendly to Cupertino when they constantly tried to wring money from them. I am glad when companies don't acquiesce to thinly-veiled extortion schemes.
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It doesn't seem like the Apple store fits easily into the surrounding environment. The boxy shape completely overpowers the public park and hence, I would tend to agree with the city's decision. ... Once the TGIF is removed, the square will have additional floor space which should be kept as open and accessible...

Cool, is the city the owner and landlord of that currently commercial space? Or is the TGI Friday's building and land owned by a private party who wanted to lease it to Apple and who's now being told he can't because the 80% of that area that's park isn't enough and we need that plot too? Are they going to seize the property to be used for such purposes and buy it from the owner?

Even if it is city-owned, considering how much money it would bring in to rent it to Apple and how getting that rent was already a done deal, seems pretty foolish to do what they're actually doing which is to give up all that money. I can't believe the best possible use of those funds would be to add an additional what, 5000 square feet of non-commercial park to a park that is 10 times that size already and by the looks of things not crowded or lacking space at all.

 

[1rottenapple]

As someone who lives next to Central Park and walks our dogs there every day, I have bad news for you: there are commercial stores in Central Park already: like the Le Pain Quotidien between 72nd street & Sheep's Meadow. Granted Apple has no need to: the Fifth Ave. Apple Store for instance is right next to Central Park.

Mind blown

 

[aristotle]

I think it should be redeveloped into a combination of a tourist information centre with a souvenir shop, a small convenience store and a coffee shop. Tourists have needs such as sundries and small snacks when travelling on foot.

 

[Lennholm]

It gets cold in the Winter. You need a bigger but not oversized place for people to gather.

Who goes to a park in the winter only to cram themselves into some building? When people go to a park in the winter, they dress accordingly in order to be able to spend their time outside.

 

[cube]

Who goes to a park in the winter only to cram themselves into some building? When people go to a park in the winter, they dress accordingly in order to be able to spend their time outside.

You could have lunch inside with a view to the park, for example.

 

[snek]

They payed 129 000 000 SEK for the property. Politicians stopped the building approval and was fighing back and forth. Apple offered to sell back the property to Stockholm city, who was not interested. And according to the contract they could just leave the property as is, empty until 2046 if they would like to, lol. But now they have hired Catella to find a new buyer.