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April 30, 2008

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Apple Store is Bristol-bound

Posted Apr. 30, ’08, 8:11 AM PT by Dan Moren
Category | Apple » Stores

BristolReader Chris sent us a tip about a new UK Apple Store—we cleverly mislaid his email in our pile of virtual papers, but good man that he is, Chris didn’t give up. This time we’ve got the message loud and clear: Apple’s got space in a new development going up in Bristol. The 6,000 square foot store will be part of the new one million square foot Cabot Circus, billed as a “city centre retail and leisure destination.” Shopping is leisure? I suppose that’s true; it explains why malls always make me sleepy, anyway.

Cabot Circus is one of the biggest developments going up in the UK at present; it’ll feature residential as well as commercial properties. Apple will be residing in the “Quakers Friars” section of the center—that sounds adorably British—alongside high-end retailers such as Harvey Nichols, The White Company, and Fred Perry. None of whom I know anything about. The whole place is scheduled to open in the autumn of this year, when it will join the existing nine fifteen UK stores. At least one other UK store, in my old haunt of Edinburgh, is rumored to open sometime in 2009.

Update: Yes, there are more than nine UK stores. Which is weird, because this list has substantially fewer. But still more than nine. Not sure how that number got into my head.

[hat tip: Chris K.]


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