Apple Store in Pittsburgh Moving Next Month

Actually, the Walnut street store is the ONLY store located within "city limits." The South Hills Village store and the Ross Park store are both located in suburban malls in the "metro area." Just saying......

Nice to see a lot of of the midwestern stores getting renovated in recent months - Cleveland’s Crocker Park store recently got renovated and a brand new Apple Store is planned for downtown Detroit

Hard to believe that Pittsburgh has a total of 3 Apple stores (within the city limits) even though the population of Pittsburgh is just over 300,000

Boston only has one Apple Store and has a population of over 650,000

I think Pittsburgh has more Apple Stores per capita (within city limits - not metro area) than any other city in the world if I’m not mistaken

Shadyside is the only one in the city limits, Ross Park Mall is a Pittsburgh mailing address, but it's in Ross Township. The South Hills Village location is also a Pittsburgh mailing address, but is in Bethel Park and Upper St. Clair.

interesting. I did some research just now and came across this article that explains the historical significance of ‘USPS mailing routes’ which are apparently often confused with the actual Pittsburgh city limits:

https://www.wesa.fm/arts-sports-culture/2022-10-26/why-boroughs-outside-of-pittsburgh-can-still-use-the-citys-name-on-letters

This is not unique to Pittsburgh. For example, most of what people think of as Las Vegas is not even in Las Vegas, although they use a Las Vegas address.

As far as Pittsburgh goes, most 152xx ZIP codes use Pittsburgh as the city name, although in many cases you can use the actual town’s name as well. I avoided using Pittsburgh in my address whenever I could when I lived near the city.

Also, Allegheny County, where the 3 Apple Stores are, has a population of over 1.2 million. The metro area, which includes surrounding counties but is mostly rural with small towns, is over 2 million.

Shadyside is the only one in the city limits, Ross Park Mall is a Pittsburgh mailing address, but it's in Ross Township. The South Hills Village location is also a Pittsburgh mailing address, but is in Bethel Park and Upper St. Clair.

interesting. I did some research just now and came across this article that explains the historical significance of ‘USPS mailing routes’ which are apparently often confused with the actual Pittsburgh city limits:

https://www.wesa.fm/arts-sports-culture/2022-10-26/why-boroughs-outside-of-pittsburgh-can-still-use-the-citys-name-on-letters

That's wild! I had no idea that PGH was unique in that capacity but you're right — we have around 1 store per 100k. How does Boston proper only have one store?!

The Greater Boston metro area has about 8 stores and the CambridgeSide Galleria store is relatively close to the flagship Boylston St. store (in Boston proper)

I think a much larger percentage of the Boston metro population lives in the suburbs than is typical of most US cities especially comparable ones like Chicago, DC & LA and that’s where 7 of the 8 stores are located

Our main Boston store hasn’t been remodeled since it opened in 2008 so perhaps that may be a store that Apple is considering renovating in the near future. Apple did just purchase that building earlier this year:

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/01/24/business/apple-store-boston-boylston-street/

(I live in Pittsburgh)

Once you factor in that it’s 3 stores to the entire metro area, which has I think about 2.7m people, it makes a bit more sense