Stockholm rejects Apple's plans to open an Apple Store in a historic park

In recent years, we have seen how Apple is selecting landmarks or buildings to open new Apple Stores that replace the ones it already has open. In most cases, it raises blisters among certain groups, as we have seen in both Australia and Italy, but most of the time it achieves its purpose.

Last February we echoed a piece of news in which it was pointed out that the city of Stockholm, Sweden, would open a new Apple Store. A few months later, due to the location that Apple had planned, many were the citizens who they expressed their discomfort, which forced the city to carry out a vote on it.

Apple had planned to open the fourth Apple Store in Sweden, in the capital Stockholm, specifically in the Kungsträdgården park. But everything seems to indicate that Apple will have to change its location, since the new government (which has been in power for just over a month) claims that it welcomes Apple but that Kungsträdgården square is not the right place.

The reasons that have led to Apple to want to open the first Apple Store in the country, we can read them in The Guardian:

It is surprising to many in the city that the company ever thought that Kungsträdgården - the King's Garden - was an appropriate location for a shop, no matter how prominent its design. The park looks over the water to the Royal Palace, connecting the city to the monarchy in the same way that the commercial center of London links to Buckingham Palace. It is one of the oldest parks in the city, home to public events, from Pride parades to election debates, political protests, and winter ice skating.

The city made a consultation about this opening project among more than 1.800 people, to which the majority responded negatively. Is now Apple who has to move tab and find a new location in the city.


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