Developer's Plans Reveal for New Apple Store Prototype in Palo Alto
The Mercury Newsreports that Apple is planning to build a new type of Apple Store in Palo Alto, California. The new store sounds like a potentially greener version of an Apple store. It will have treens growing inside.
There it will build an Apple Store that project developers referred to in planning documents as "a new prototype for the company." The facade will be entirely transparent at ground level, vast skylights will flood the store with natural light, and trees will grow inside, fed by the sunlight from above, according to a proposal submitted to the city's architectural review board.
The building at 340 University Ave. is an 86-year-old structure best known as the longtime home of Liddicoat's grocery. More recently it housed Z Gallerie furniture store, and it has mostly stood vacant since that store closed several months ago.
The Mercury News says the store's developers say the prototype Apple store makes the street part of the store's interior to create "a commons for the applicant's community to gather." You can find more details about Apple's Palo Alto store plans here.
The Mercury News 
