Official: Apple Store

jsheets · Post by **jsheets** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 12:46 pm

djc311 wrote:We're planning a store at Shadow Lake Towne Center in Papillion, which is also another Red Development project, so who knows if they might want to do another one?

Awesome! What are you planning to build? And do you know any inside info about the status of the mall? It seems that they haven't worked on it in months... presumably because of issues moving the creek...

Post by **Omaha Cowboy** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 2:56 pm

Excellent info guys..

Thanks!..

And welcome to the forum westom

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..Ciao..LiO....Peace

TechnicalDisaster · Post by **TechnicalDisaster** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 4:08 pm

MTO wrote:Wow two apple stores is that uncommon in a metro less than 1million or not?

Apple is pretty conservative with store placement, so I doubt Omaha will see two of them. They have historically placed very small test market stores in Malls and only opened larger full fledged stores if the smaller ones are successfull. I'm curious how big our Apple Store will be when it opens. Does anyone have any idea which bay they are moving into at Village Pointe?

lonnie · Post by **lonnie** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 4:40 pm

bradley414 wrote:...I'm curious how big our Apple Store will be when it opens. Does anyone have any idea which bay they are moving into at Village Pointe?

I'm guessing that "Apple" is going into the new 'fill-in' building that is under construction now. Other stores going in there are "Coach", "J.Crew" and "myAbode".

There aren't many other empty spots at Village Pointe.

Lonnie

adam186 · Post by **adam186** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 5:15 pm

^That's a huge building that's underconstruction in the spot you're describing. I've seen it not to long ago and think that would be a nice open space for Apple. Do they ever have stand alone stores?

djc311 · Post by **djc311** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 7:04 pm

jsheets wrote:
djc311 wrote:We're planning a store at Shadow Lake Towne Center in Papillion, which is also another Red Development project, so who knows if they might want to do another one?
Awesome! What are you planning to build? And do you know any inside info about the status of the mall? It seems that they haven't worked on it in months... presumably because of issues moving the creek...

We're building another one of our Omaha Chocolate Company and Gelateria stores down there. Although we're not listed on their tenant listings of the website, you can see a lot of what they have coming to that development by going to http://www.reddevelopment.com & pulling down Shadow Lake Towne Center.

I'm looking forward to the steady and repeat traffic flow that location will be exposed to with a store like Hy-Vee there. Sure, VP doesn't have a layout like that, but I think they're are benefits to both. We're going to be across the street from the main entrance to Old Navy & right next door to a Borders book store. Wish us luck!

D

eomaha · Post by **eomaha** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 7:38 pm

dj... do you by any chance have access to any site renderings that we haven't seen before? (ie those on the RED site).

djc311 · Post by **djc311** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 8:32 pm

Hmmm, I don't think I have anything sitting here. But, I can look. And, quite honestly, so to not PO Red, I would probably see if they mind me posting or providing that information.

D

jsheets · Post by **jsheets** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 8:56 pm

Awesome! You should fit in great at SLTC. But I might be biased since I'm in long walking distance to the place :-)

djc311 wrote:We're going to be across the street from the main entrance to Old Navy & right next door to a Borders book store. Wish us luck!

And Borders will be great, as there is not another book store in Sarpy County at this time! I don't think that Borders or Old Navy have been "officially" announced yet, so thanks for the tip!

eomaha · Post by **eomaha** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 9:05 pm

Yeah, I don't think anyone has mentioned Old Navy or Borders. You might as well share those site renderings with us too dj.

djc311 · Post by **djc311** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 10:01 pm

|expletive| - well, I didn't mention it here! I better keep quiet for a little while, 'cause I have some other info that isn't on their website yet, either....

djc311 · Post by **djc311** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 10:08 pm

One more thing, I hope that F0 tornado today didn't ruin any of the dirt moving they're doing down there at Shadow Lake!

D

SychoBC · Post by **SychoBC** » Fri Mar 31, 2006 12:09 am

Just FYI, NFM has no Apple Certified Apple Technians on hand. So getting repairs will be a little tricky, ala sending them in. As opposed to CompUSA, where we have 2 certified Apple techs.

TechnicalDisaster · Post by **TechnicalDisaster** » Fri Mar 31, 2006 7:47 am

SychoBC wrote:Just FYI, NFM has no Apple Certified Apple Technians on hand. So getting repairs will be a little tricky, ala sending them in. As opposed to CompUSA, where we have 2 certified Apple techs.

I can confirm that. When my parents bought a Mac Mini (Another convert, yay!) from NFM, the salesman advised them to purchase the AppleCare plan instead of NFM's in house extended warrenty. According to him, NFM sends out Macs to an offsite vendor.

Big E · Post by **Big E** » Fri Mar 31, 2006 9:15 am

That and Apple gives BIG kudos when sales people sell those plans.

-Big E

Zephyr · Post by **Zephyr** » Fri Mar 31, 2006 9:20 am

I really like the AppleCare plan. It's come in REALLY handy with my iPod - I am on my third one.

Big E - we may not completely agree on downtown improvement districts, but at least we see eye-to-eye on Macs!!

almighty_tuna · Post by **almighty_tuna** » Fri Mar 31, 2006 10:52 am

We had a mobo go out on an old Powerbook here and the Apple Care plan got us hooked up with a brand spankin' new one. Viva la Apple Care. I'm looking forward to my first mac here at work for me, personally; G5 Quad, baby

jsheets · Post by **jsheets** » Fri Mar 31, 2006 1:14 pm

djc311 wrote:One more thing, I hope that F0 tornado today didn't ruin any of the dirt moving they're doing down there at Shadow Lake!

I didn't see much last night, although the advertisement semi-trailer was blown over onto it's side. And there were a lot of destroyed plasticy white fences, and street signs thrown about around 96th & 370.

MTO · Post by **MTO** » Fri Mar 31, 2006 1:56 pm

Also an Apple store exclusive apparently that is the only place that you will be able to buy an Apple phone (other than online).

Big E · Post by **Big E** » Fri Mar 31, 2006 2:01 pm

Now that WOULD be an exclusive... considering it doesn't exist (at least not for a LONG time).

-Big E

MTO · Post by **MTO** » Fri Mar 31, 2006 2:04 pm

Long time huh I guess that’s perspective, hey also tomorrow is Apple’s 30 birthday.

djc311 · Post by **djc311** » Fri Mar 31, 2006 3:24 pm

Maybe Apple should look at putting a store in the old Baum Drug Store!

hehe

D

Uffda · Post by **Uffda** » Wed Apr 05, 2006 8:33 am

A little sidenote (unfortunately I couldn't afford the ticket for the banquet)

Apple co-founder recalls seeds of his idea

Rather than lock up his doodles and call a patent attorney when he designed the first Apple computer, Steve Wozniak took his schematics and descriptions to a meeting of the Home Brew Computer Club, a group of geeks who shared spare parts and ideas.

If there was anybody there bent on stealing intellectual property, they overlooked the invention that launched the personal computer era.

So did some other people, to hear Wozniak tell the story Tuesday night in Omaha. Like scientists at Hewlett Packard, where Wozniak designed calculators. HP looked over the plans but passed.

http://www.omaha.com/index.php?u_pg=46&u_sid=2145848

MTO · Post by **MTO** » Wed Apr 05, 2006 10:56 am

djc311 wrote:Maybe Apple should look at putting a store in the old Baum Drug Store!

hehe

D

That would be the |expletive| since its in my neighborhood.

eomaha · Post by **eomaha** » Thu Apr 06, 2006 12:41 am

Found this updated Village Pointe site plan...

adam186 · Post by **adam186** » Thu Apr 06, 2006 12:47 am

Alright Jeff!!!! Props. It's now "OFFICIAL".

SychoBC · Post by **SychoBC** » Thu Apr 06, 2006 8:23 am

Jeff don't get your wife in trouble.

StreetsOfOmaha · Post by **StreetsOfOmaha** » Sun Apr 09, 2006 2:41 am

I think it IS official. I talked to a friend tonight, who said that there is an Apple Store listing for Omaha on Monster.com, and that he applied for a job.

I'd say that's a sure thing. That is AWESOME!

MTO · Post by **MTO** » Sun Apr 09, 2006 12:10 pm

Now it just can’t come fast enough. Is the construction about done yet?

adam186 · Post by **adam186** » Sun Apr 09, 2006 12:25 pm

They have the structure up, but I can't really tell what the progress is on the inside. They have it boarded up.

SychoBC · Post by **SychoBC** » Sun Apr 09, 2006 2:41 pm

Job postings for the Apple store have been on Apple's site for 2 weeks now.

MTO · Post by **MTO** » Sun Apr 09, 2006 2:45 pm

It’s going to suck driving from MTO to VP every week! I’ll have to stop by Jeff’s place and say hi.
If only DTO was in full bloom and trendy to the max!

adam186 · Post by **adam186** » Sun Apr 09, 2006 2:48 pm

SychoBC wrote:Job postings for the Apple store have been on Apple's site for 2 weeks now.

Yep, and it's also in the tenant site plan that Jeff posted a few days ago.

UNOstudent · Post by **UNOstudent** » Mon Apr 10, 2006 11:16 pm

from left to right - coach, empty, jcrew, and poor apple got cut off

on the back side: te belle, empty, my abode

adam186 · Post by **adam186** » Mon Apr 10, 2006 11:24 pm

Coming along nicely. Last time I saw it, it was cover in plastic sheets.

SychoBC · Post by **SychoBC** » Wed Apr 12, 2006 6:04 pm

It's looking like July or August is when the store will open.

MTO · Post by **MTO** » Wed Apr 12, 2006 6:35 pm

just in time for the 13in and 17in macbooks yay

SaOmaha · Post by **SaOmaha** » Tue Apr 18, 2006 10:12 am

Saturday, I went out to Village Pointe and took a photo of the new addition. I believe the Apple store will be on the right
- the storefront with yellow above it.

Ingersoll1978 · Post by **Ingersoll1978** » Wed Apr 19, 2006 12:08 am

That totally looks like a "future" Apple Store.

MTO · Post by **MTO** » Wed Apr 19, 2006 10:16 am

like josh like how can you be so difnitive?