Apple Store Boylston Street, Boston Opening This Week

Apple published that the store will open this Thursday at 6 PM. I've been following the construction since last year through timelapsed photography on the Birth of an Apple Store blog. This is Apple's biggest store in the United States with roughly 20,000 square feet of space. I don't think that's all retail space though. The facade is a replica of Fenway Park's Green Monster! The store is located across the street from one of Boston's landmark buildings, the Prudential.

Apple had originally considered keeping the store open 24 hours a day, seven days a week. If you know Boston, that would not have been practical, as the sidewalks get rolled up around 11 PM. So that distinction will stay unique to the New York City 5th Avenue Store. Instead, it will be open from 8 AM till 11 PM, 7 days a week. So, when my home store in the Braintree South Shore Plaza is closed, I can get my Sunday morning fix with a trip into the Hub of the Universe.