According to the Mac Generation website, which has echoed a report that published Le Figaro, Apple intends to open a store on the first floors of the seven floors of the building located at number 114 of the lower levels of the seven floors 114 of avenue des Champs Elysées, leaving the upper floors for office space.
This is something very common in Apple, that is, opening a Flagship Store and leaving the upper part of the building for office space, if we look back we see how this has already happened, for example, with the Apple Store that opened in the Puerta del Sol in Madrid a year and a half ago, curiously in what was the old Paris Hotel.
Returning to the subject of the news with the store that will open in Paris, according to the sources consulted the annual rent of the building it would be around 12 million euros per year, since this agreement was closed at the end of last year after many months of negotiation. However, it could still be some time before Apple begins work to renovate the old Hausmann building.
The report indicates that the firm in charge of carrying out the technical project and the restoration and adaptation works to open this Apple Store is none other than the well-known Norma FosterHowever, they are still in the process of obtaining the proper permits to begin the works.
Currently France already has 19 stores throughout the country as well as a "dedicated store" for the Apple Watch that he opened at Galeries Lafayette. The rumor of the opening of a store in the Champs Elysées has been going on since 2003, since this area is one of the most important in Paris on a commercial level and has always been in Apple's sights, however in the end it opted for another location as at that time he could not find any suitable place to open a store with a long-term lease.