Apple Cancels Plans to Open New Apple Store in Australia

Apple Store Federation Square in Australia

Since Angela Ahrents came to Apple, Tim Cook's company opened new stores in iconic locations in many cities. However, not all cities have welcomed the company's plans. Neither are some owners of the premises that Apple has wanted to rent at any given time.

A few days ago, we told you about the cancellation of the project to open an Apple Store in Israel. Apparently, according to local media, the company that owns the premises, did not accept the conditions that Apple proposed, conditions that Apple seems never willing to change. Now it is Australia's turn, where it has also been forced to cancel its expansion plans.

Federation Square

In the last few months, we have repeatedly discussed the problems Apple was facing in Australia, where it was planning to open a new Apple Store in Federation Square, one of the most popular squares in Melbourne and that is used to hold protest rallies, demonstrations ...

From the beginning, many have been the protest groups that have expressed themselves against this project, taking their discomfort to the city hall, a city council that finally has denied Apple's request to settle in this iconic Melbourne square.

As we can read in The Sidney Morning Herald, the Yarra building, where Apple had planned to open its new store, cannot be knocked down as it would envisage an "unacceptable and irreversible impact on the importance of Federation Square's cultural heritage." Seeing the panorama, the Apple delegation in the country has announced that it will not continue with the plans to build this new store in the city.

The same Apple spokesman, told The Age, that I was disappointed because I couldn't build a store in Federation Square, but that "we remain committed to serving our customers in Melbourne and throughout Australia."

Apple's plans for the Apple Store demanded the demolition of the Yarra buildingA move that eventually received a negative response from Melbourne City Council and Melbourne residents unhappy with the plan to give public space to a private company.


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