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Apple to Open First Retail Store in Philadelphia

Tuesday July 27, 2010 7:23 am PDT by Eric Slivka

Walnut Street store under construction (Source: ifoAppleStore)

Apple today announced the grand opening of its new Walnut Street retail store in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The events will begin with a press preview at 4:00 PM on this Friday, July 30th, with the store set to open to the general public at 5:00 PM that day.

While Apple has four existing stores in the Philadelphia area in its Suburban Square and King of Prussia locations in Pennsylvania and Cherry Hill and Sagemore stores in southern New Jersey, the new store will be the first within the city limits of Philadelphia.

Just last weekend, Apple opened new stores in Columbus, Ohio and Lexington, Kentucky.
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Salacion
20 months ago
Anyone else see Mac and Charlie wrecking havoc within the Apple Store? :D (Always Sunny reference if you didn't know)
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gdigger
20 months ago

Anyone else see Mac and Charlie wrecking havoc within the Apple Store? :D (Always Sunny reference if you didn't know)


lol....that would rock...:p
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badnewz
20 months ago
About damn time
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thejadedmonkey
20 months ago

About damn time


When I lived in Philly, I remember having to take an hour long bus ride to get to an Apple store. Not fun :mad:
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Cubert
20 months ago
I will be first in line, peeps! And sending in photos to boot!
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highres
20 months ago
Cool. The Ardmore Surburban Square store is only 3 blocks from me but it can't hurt to have another Apple store nearby. The more the merrier. :apple:
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Nicky G
20 months ago
I've been waiting for a while for this one to open -- the black covering was there for a long long time! I tend to hang out around Rittenhouse Sq. with my girlfriend on weekends, so this will be a fun place to drop in on occasionally.
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Doctor Q
20 months ago
Is it true that everyone who comes to the Grand Opening gets a free cheesesteak? :) If not, its only a 15-minute walk to Reading Terminal Market.
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bigrell486
20 months ago
While I live in Philadelphia, I live closer to the Suburban Square store so that will continue to be my main store. Besides why would anyone want to go into the downtown store with no free parking plus 8% sales tax versus the free parking and 6% sales tax you get less than 30 minutes away? The savings through taxes alone is worth the justification of extra gas.
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severe
20 months ago
Sweet. And love the architecture. Looks like Philly and not some space-aged *****. At least until you get inside. ;)

..If not, its only a 15-minute walk to Reading Terminal Market.


And worth every minute.
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