Apple Planning 50,000 Square Foot Store In Jerusalem [Jerusalem Location Would Be Home To Apple's First Ever "Apple Digital Library"]

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This is not the first time, nor likely is it the last time, we’ve heard about Apple’s unusual plans for retail stores. But this one may be the strangest one yet–Apple has, reportedly, some plans to install a massive new Apple Store in the midst of Jerusalem.

And this one positively dwarfs their earlier plans. You’ll likely remember how Apple meant to put an Apple Store in the midst of Grand Central Terminal, a substantial 16,000 square foot affair that would have taken up large chunks of the available real estate. But the planned store for Jerusalem, meanwhile, will reportedly measure a whopping 50,000 square feet.

Just for reference, the average Best Buy pretty much tops out at 45,000 square feet, depending on the market, so Apple’s looking to put in a store bigger than the largest normal Best Buy (and in keeping with the location, almost double the reported size of Noah’s Ark.) right smack in the middle of Jerusalem. It would, reportedly, be the largest Apple Store the world has ever known.

But it’s not just a big store in the middle of the most hotly disputed real estate on the planet that makes this interesting, oh no–this Apple Store would also offer another first, the first ever Apple Digital Library, which would be open to the public and, ostensibly, provide some kind of time-connected access to Apple’s growing ebook selections, or at the very least, specialized iPads and iPhones that have unlimited bookstore access but can’t leave the building.

The reasoning behind this? Mostly symbolic, according to word from Apple directors in Israel, and putting up a building twice the size of Noah’s Ark in the middle of the center of religion for three different societies can’t help but qualify as symbolic, and adding a “digital library” not too far from the very first libraries ever known doesn’t hurt either. Further word even goes so far as to suggest the building will be part of Jerusalem’s tech sector, with a 15 screen theater and a light rail stop.

Still though, these are still just plans, and I personally expect they’ll be put paid to before too much longer if for nothing else than the sheer danger involved. Still though, if it shows, it’ll be a sight to see.

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