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Apple Concept Store in Manila?

According to a design company, CB Engineers, the upcoming Philippine Stock Exchange building in Fort Bonifacio, Taguig City will also house the very first Apple Store in the country.

The ground floor retail section of the new PSE is said to include the Apple Store, Manila:

CB Engineers was selected by the Ayala Development Group to provide consulting services as the sustainability consultant and commissioning agent for the new Philippine Stock Exchange Office Building.

The project is a new 650,000-sq.ft. high rise office tower complex located in Bonifacio Global City, a business district of Metro Manila in the Philippines. The project is named for its anchor tenant the Philippine Stock Exchange (PSE) although the PSE will be occupying only about 108,000 sf or 15% of the total projected floor area. The project is being designed as a LEED Gold, Class A office space (referred to as Triple A Office Space in Manila) and will seek high profile tenants such as headquarters of large multinationals, with the retail section housing the Apple Store, Manila as the anchor tenant. To match the projects ambitious design goals, the Ownership Group has insisted on retaining a world class design team which includes Skidmore Owings & Merrill, SOM; EDAW and CB Engineers along with qualified local architects and engineers as the designers or record.

If this is really true, it makes sense since Apple already has the Online Store in the Philippines and may want to have better presence in the metro. The Fort is an ideal spot to have one but that would surely dampen the enthusiasm of the current iStudio (an Apple Premium Reseller) store owner at the Boni High Street.

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No additional details were stated but I’m sure this is gonna piss off Apple that their secret has leaked out {source, via}.

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Abe is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of YugaTech with over 20 years of experience in the technology industry. He is one of the pioneers of blogging in the country and considered by many as the Father of Tech Blogging in the Philippines. He is also a technology consultant, a tech columnist with several national publications, resource speaker and mentor/advisor to several start-up companies.

26 Responses

  1. Avatar for Francis Domingo Francis Domingo says:

    That would be great. I’ve been really waiting for this, that the Philippines will have it’s own official Apple Store. Apple store has the Genius bar which helps people to know more about their Macs. Apple store also sells iTunes gifts cards. All of those that are not present on our 3rd party resellers.

  2. Avatar for Domotics Domotics says:

    I also want to attend kung free.

  3. Avatar for matt matt says:

    are the seminars in iStudio and PowerMac for free? how can I attend?

  4. Avatar for Chris Chris says:

    nice.. iba pala ung apple center?

  5. Avatar for Kenneth Yamat Kenneth Yamat says:

    you can make a US account for free, by free i mean that you need not use a credit card for confirmation. how? google it, i simply filled up the information and use a random name generator or just google earth a legit us address and your set to go. but at the moment you purchase something you will need to supply card details. i personally don’t use itunes store for buying apps but i use genius, embed album art from itunes, podcast from AOTS and get free singles of the week. hehe

  6. Avatar for Keiko Keiko says:

    This is great, but one thing I’m eager to find out is if their service would be the same like other Apple Stores abroad. I must say, Apple Resellers here s*cks. Walang technical know how sa binebenta :)

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