Old Georgetown Board approves Georgetown Apple
Posted by: Molly Redden in News, Vox Populi, tags: Apple Store, Old Georgetown BoardHooray! After sending Apple back to the drawing board four, yes four times, rejected plans for a Wisconsin Avenue Apple store in hand, the Old Georgetown Board has finally approved their designs! And it sounds like the news storefront, which this fifth set of plans presented sans the huge front window they had initially planned for, and with more brick, really turns the OGB on:
“This is beautifully executed,” Stephen J. Vanze, chairman of the Old Georgetown Board, told Karl Backus, Apple’s architect. “We’re very pleased.”
At least that’s over with! Apple still has to get the O.K. from the U.S Commission of Fine Arts, the OGB’s overlords, but according to the Post, it’s unlikely they’ll flip the decision.
Apple still hasn’t determined their construction schedule for the store, which will sit where French Connection used to at 1229 Wisconsin, but by gosh—at least we’re getting it!
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Yay! No more trekking to Pentagon City when my computer/iPod get sick!
well, i imagine it won’t actually open for another few years, but there’s at least hope!
Looks like they’ve started construction… any updated idea as to when the store might open?
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