After five months of construction, Apple on Friday will reopen its Fifth Avenue store in New York City, according to MacRumors.
The renovation project, which began in mid-June, cost Apple a reported $6.7 million, ifoAppleStore said. Apple has replaced the 90 panels that comprised the store's iconic glass cube with just 15 "larger, seamless pieces of glass," signs bordering the construction site noted.
Apple reps did not immediately respond to questions about the construction, but when the process began, ifoAppleStore said it involved completely removing the old glass and its hardware, upgrading the surrounding plaza, and reinstalling the new cube.
A note on the store's Web site said it will close at 10pm on Thursday and reopen at 10am today. This Apple Store, the most-trafficked in the Big Apple, is regularly open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Although it's the smallest Apple Store in NYC, this location does more business than the other three Big Apple stores combined.
For the past several months its cube has been shrouded in a white covering, closed off behind a wooden fence. According to MacRumors, Apple began removing the covering early Thursday afternoon (see photo).
Apple is getting close to another unveiling in the Big Apple. The company is currently building a fifth brick-and-mortar New York City store in Grand Central Terminal. At 23,000 square feet, the new location will be one of the biggest Apple Stores to date. Construction began in August and the store will reportedly open by Black Friday, if not sooner. Apple, however, hasn't yet announced an opening date.
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