{"id":507,"date":"2008-01-20T19:46:20","date_gmt":"2008-01-21T00:46:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingmontreal.ca\/?p=507"},"modified":"2013-01-21T11:59:54","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T16:59:54","slug":"the-apple-store-is-blocking-your-sidewalk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2008\/01\/20\/the-apple-store-is-blocking-your-sidewalk\/","title":{"rendered":"The Apple Store is blocking your sidewalk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.macetmoi.com\/blog\/73-apple-store-montreal-la-construction-va-bon-train\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i80.photobucket.com\/albums\/j172\/cprail\/divers\/IMGP1459.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mac lovers have been closely following the construction of the <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/?p=19\">new flagship Apple Store<\/a> on Ste. Catherine St. just west of Mountain. When it opens this fall, it will be the first Apple flagship in Canada and one of just ten around the world. Originally, Apple wanted to pay the city $30,000 in order to remove the two parking spaces in front of the store, so as not to mar its trademark fa\u00e7ade, but the city refused. <\/p>\n<p>Apparently, parking spaces are worth a lot more than pedestrian spaces, because the Apple Store&#8217;s contractors have been allowed to block off a large section of the sidewalk on Ste. Catherine St. with a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macetmoi.com\/blog\/73-apple-store-montreal-la-construction-va-bon-train\">massive construction shield<\/a>, creating a pedestrian bottleneck and forcing people into the street. While it&#8217;s standard practice to install such hoardings when a store is being renovated, they are usually much smaller than the one at the Apple Store, which takes up at least three quarters of the sidewalk&#8217;s width.<\/p>\n<p>So far, nobody has raised this issue with the Ville-Marie borough, which would have authorized the hoarding. We&#8217;ll keep you posted as we find out more.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.macetmoi.com\/blog\/73-apple-store-montreal-la-construction-va-bon-train\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i80.photobucket.com\/albums\/j172\/cprail\/divers\/IMGP1460.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>Photos from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macetmoi.com\/blog\/73-apple-store-montreal-la-construction-va-bon-train\">MacEtMoi<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mac lovers have been closely following the construction of the new flagship Apple Store on Ste. Catherine St. just west of Mountain. 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