Electronics

Apple Wins Approval for First D.C. store

Took five tries for design approval from local preservation board

Published

15 years ago

March 10, 2009

VMSD Staff

By the fifth time, Apple finally got it right. The Cupertino, Calif. computer company has won approval from the U.S. Fine Arts Commission’s Advisory Neighborhood Commission and The Old Georgetown Board to build a retail outlet in Washington D.C., its first in the nation’s capital.

“This is beautifully executed,” Stephen Vanze, chairman of the Old Georgetown Board, told Karl Backus, Apple’s architect, according to the Washington Post. “We’re very pleased.”

In 2007, Apple purchased the building that now stands at 1229 Wisconsin Ave. NW for $13.3 million, and has been navigating D.C.’s multi-layered approval process ever since. The final approved rendering was designed to echo the architectural features of the city’s historic Georgetown neighborhood.

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