{"id":335433,"date":"2017-03-10T00:54:20","date_gmt":"2017-03-09T16:54:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2017\/03\/09\/apple-store-news-jacksonville-grand-rapids\/"},"modified":"2017-03-10T00:54:20","modified_gmt":"2017-03-09T16:54:20","slug":"apples-new-jacksonville-store-opens-march-11-as-grand-rapids-location-set-to-expand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/apples-new-jacksonville-store-opens-march-11-as-grand-rapids-location-set-to-expand\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple&#8217;s New Jacksonville Store Opens March 11 as Grand Rapids Location Set to Expand"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"body\" readability=\"52.596899224806\">Apple has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/retail\/stjohnstowncenter\/\">announced<\/a> that its relocated St. Johns Town Center store in Jacksonville, Florida opens Saturday, March 11 at 10:00 a.m. local time. The next-generation store will be located at 4835 River City Drive, just down the street from its current store at 4712 River City Drive in the open-air shopping complex.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.macrumors.com\/article-new\/2017\/03\/apple-st-johns-town-center.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"694\" height=\"463\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-553733\"\/><\/p>\n<p><em>Apple&#8217;s existing St. Johns Town Center store opened in March 2005<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Apple&#8217;s new 9,100-square-foot store is situated between Tesla and Tory Burch stores near the southeast end of the Town Center. The space, which was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/jacksonville\/news\/2016\/10\/03\/st-johns-town-centers-apple-store-readies-to-move.html\">vacated by Forever 21<\/a> last year, is over twice as large as its current store, which opened in March 2005. The older location will likely close by Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, Apple plans to double the size of its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/retail\/woodland\/\">Woodland Mall store<\/a> in Grand Rapids, Michigan to 8,000 square feet, according to <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mlive.com\/news\/grand-rapids\/index.ssf\/2017\/03\/woodland_malls_owner_to_spend.html\">MLive<\/a><\/em>. And in China, a store with a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dongjunzhao\/status\/839694081689178113\">beautiful staircase<\/a> is <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/storetellee\/status\/839794204368846849\">set to open at Jinmao Place<\/a> in Nanjing in the near future. Apple has yet to announce an official grand opening date.<\/p>\n<p><em>(Thanks, Larry!)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/retail\/stjohnstowncenter\/\">announced<\/a> that its relocated St. Johns Town Center store in Jacksonville, Florida opens Saturday, March 11 at 10:00 a.m. local time. The next-generation store will be located at 4835 River City Drive, just down the street from its current store at 4712 River City Drive in the open-air shopping complex.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.macrumors.com\/article-new\/2017\/03\/apple-st-johns-town-center.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"694\" height=\"463\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-553733\" \/><center><em>Apple&#8217;s existing St. Johns Town Center store opened in March 2005<\/em><\/center><br \/>\n<br \/>\nApple&#8217;s new 9,100-square-foot store is situated between Tesla and Tory Burch stores near the southeast end of the Town Center. The space, which was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/jacksonville\/news\/2016\/10\/03\/st-johns-town-centers-apple-store-readies-to-move.html\">vacated by Forever 21<\/a> last year, is over twice as large as its current store, which opened in March 2005. The older location will likely close by Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, Apple plans to double the size of its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/retail\/woodland\/\">Woodland Mall store<\/a> in Grand Rapids, Michigan to 8,000 square feet, according to <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mlive.com\/news\/grand-rapids\/index.ssf\/2017\/03\/woodland_malls_owner_to_spend.html\">MLive<\/a><\/em>. And in China, a store with a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dongjunzhao\/status\/839694081689178113\">beautiful staircase<\/a> is <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/storetellee\/status\/839794204368846849\">set to open at Jinmao Place<\/a> in Nanjing in the near future. Apple has yet to announce an official grand opening date.<\/p>\n<p><em>(Thanks, Larry!)<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"linkback\">Related Roundup: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/roundup\/apple-retail-stores\/\">Apple Stores<\/a> <\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forums.macrumors.com\/threads\/apple-store-news-jacksonville-grand-rapids.2036275\/\">Discuss this article<\/a> in our forums<\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.macrumors.com\/~ff\/MacRumors-All?a=vSnbz0JegxA:skgmMGJ4yj4:6W8y8wAjSf4\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/MacRumors-All?d=6W8y8wAjSf4\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.macrumors.com\/~ff\/MacRumors-All?a=vSnbz0JegxA:skgmMGJ4yj4:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/MacRumors-All?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/MacRumors-All\/~4\/vSnbz0JegxA\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\"\/> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5817,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[68,69,59,26],"class_list":["post-335433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-apple","tag-macrumors","tag-media","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5817"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335433\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}