Both imagined and real Watchmen are making an appearance at Apple’s retail stores, in one case to amuse, and in the other case to protect the stores from a series of window-smash burglaries. First, comic book artist Dave Gibbons will appear at southern California and New York Apple stores to promote the March 6th debut [...]

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Yet another small California town is debating the arrival of an Apple store, an event that  traditionally brings the company’s distinctive glass and steel architecture to Main Streets composed of masonry buildings housing local businesses. The Santa Barbara (Calif.) Historic Landmarks Commission considered a revised plan last week for 928 State Street, presented by Apple’s local architectural [...]

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The line has formed for the grand opening of the Los Gatos (N. Calif.) street store, with Clyde arriving at 11 a.m. Gary and Mike arrived about noon, and they are now huddled underneath a tree for the shade in the 87 degree heat. There is black plastic over the outside of the storefront as [...]

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Apple will have a triple grand opening week, including two stores mid-week at the unusual hour of 6 p.m. The Oxmoor Center (Louisville, Ken.) and Los Gatos (N. Calif.) stores will open Thursday evening at 6 p.m. [Los Gatos sneek peek]. Then the Natick Collection (Mass.) store will open Friday morning at the usual hour [...]

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Construction of the future Los Gatos (N. Calif.) retail store is continuing. The town of 28,000 is nestled between tony foothills southwest of San Jose, where Apple’s hopes to take advantage of its $133,480 average household income. The interior space has been gutted and refitted, and now the stainless steel has been delivered from Kikukawa [...]

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After receiving objections from city officials for a stainless steel façade for a future store along the main street of Los Gatos (N. Calif.), Apple’s architect went back to the drawing board and came up with a compromise design that uses some plaster finishing and some stainless steel. That was enough for the city’s Planning [...]

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Apple has asked that its proposal to open a store in Los Gatos (N. Calif.) be removed from the agenda of this week’s city planning commission meeting, according to city officials. A story in the San Jose Mercury News quotes town attorney Orry Korb saying, “It has something to do with the timing of the [...]

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The Los Gatos (N. Calif.) city council has been accused of playing politics for denying a permit request for the retail space at 25 N. Santa Cruz Ave. in that city. Politicians in the small, trendy town are admittedly picky about what types of retail stores open in the downtown, limiting them to products that [...]

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