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Apple Crocker Park looks to become the latest Apple Store to be relocated, although Apple has so far only confirmed that the current store is undergoing development.
Following the relocation of stores such as the UK's Apple Trafford Center, and the closure of Apple Northbrook in Chicago, a further store has been announced as being redeveloped. Apple Crocker Park, in the Westlake, Ohio, shopping village looks to be about to relocate and perhaps expand.
Apple Crocker Park's website has been updated with a headline that says, "Get ready. Great things are in store. A brand-new Apple Store is coming soon." There are no further details, either as to what may be done to the store, or when.
Unlike the Apple Trafford Center store which showed early closing times ahead of its relocation, Apple Crocker Park continues to list regular store hours. Originally opened in September 2008, it hasn't been updated since and continues to be in the same brushed steel-and-glass style that Apple has been moving away from in its more recent stores.
Apple Crocker Park is a small store, sandwiched between clothing retailer Buckle and mattress outlet Sleep Number. Apple doesn't even operate the whole plot, as a segment of its floor space has been given over instead to Canary Travel.
Overall, Crocker Park shopping village is expanding with a reported 11 new stores and restaurants announced as coming. Thos include more fashion and clothing stores, such as Garage and Tradehome Shoes.
According to the shopping village's owners, the existing home furnishings retailer Arhaus — currently on the same Crocker Park Boulevard as Apple — is to both relocate and expand its space in the center. Consequently, given the small size of the current Apple Store, plus the apparent popularity of the shopping village and the option to relocate, it's likely that Apple will be moving to larger or more prominent premises within Crocker Park.
Apple's previously-revealed plans for store relocations in 2025 include Perth, Australia, Wichita, Kansas, and three additional store relocations, one of which is presumably Apple Crocker Park.
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Doesn't that look like any other Apple store? Rows of teak tables with product on them.
It's no different then when you travel interstate and walk into a McYuk and you find exactly the same junk food.
That store really needs a rethink. In addition to being too small, it is also way too hidden and inconspicuous. It feels like it's in a back alley and like it was wedged in as an afterthought. Crocker Park is fairly new and is built around a new theme of being a quaint village atmosphere with a mix of retail and residential, much like the Apple Store in the Easton Town Center in Columbus. With the not so slow extinction of the cavernous mega malls from the 60s through the 80s and the move to more quaint and outdoorsy and mixed-use malls, the Apple Stores in these new malls shouldn't feel like they would be equally at home in the old dinosaur malls. Apple of course sets its own theme, but they need to maintain their place of prominence while still fitting into the new mall aesthetic that has arrived in in the past couple of decades. The bottom line factor is that these new mall settings are where people want to shop and where they feel safe in comparison to some of the cavernous old style malls where half or more of the storefronts are blanked out and the cops are often being called to break up one thing or another.
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I think the Apple Store design is looking a bit dated now and could do with a rethink.
This isnt it.