Since the Apple store opened yesterday, I’ve seen this line again and again at The Signal and other outlets:
It took Westfield Valencia Town Center two years to attract the store to its newest outdoor space at The Patios. Apple has regularly been at the top of Santa Clarita Valley residents’ wish list when it comes to businesses they want.
Uh-huh.
Before we get all high on ourselves as sophisticated, urban, tasteful technology connosieurs, I’d like to see the study or quasi-scientific poll that shows Apple Store is at the top of what the SCV wanted. Because I remember differently. And what I remember is that the SCV preferred cheese to Apples:
Boom! Nine times as many respondents to the City’s 2010 poll preferred a Cheesecake Factory to an Apple Store.
I’m really bullish on what a successful Apple store means for SCV, and I’d like to think its arrival in the SCV heralds a future in which we’ll have an ArcLight or Landmark Theater and other sophisticated attractions, but let’s be honest here: this is still a place and we are still a people who want a Cheesecake Factory above all else.
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