Apple Tower Theater opens June 24 and is set to look stunning

Apple Tower Theater Concept
Apple Tower Theater Concept (Image credit: Cultural Heritage Commission)

What you need to know

  • Apple Tower Theater will open on June 27.
  • The store has undergone an extensive restoration project.

After three years of restoration work, Apple Tower Theater in LA's Broadway Theater District is set to open on June 24.

Architects Foster + Partners have been working to bring the site back to its former glory including details that will remind everyone of the building's beginnings – but that doesn't mean changes aren't going to be apparent as Curbed reported back in 2018.

The Tower would be restored by Foster and Partners and receive seismic retrofits. A sole rendering of the post-renovation Tower shows a whiter, brighter interior, with many of the structure's stunning interior details on display.

The folk at 9to5Mac have more details about the new store, including the fact the namesake clock tower has received some attention, too.

In 2018, Apple began restoring the vacant building, repairing and cleaning its terracotta tile exterior and preserving original French Renaissance-style details inside. The theater's namesake clock tower has been rehabilitated, and the original 1927 marquee recreated with cast metal details and operable reader board signs.

All of this will be worthwhile when Apple opens its new store on June 24. If you're visiting the store and take photos, we'd love to see them. Hit us up on Twitter!

Nobody quite does retail stores like Apple and Apple Tower Theater is just the latest example of that. Apple Stores are as much landmarks as they are places to buy things and that's sure to be the case once more when the world returns to normal.

Oliver Haslam
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Oliver Haslam has written about Apple and the wider technology business for more than a decade with bylines on How-To Geek, PC Mag, iDownloadBlog, and many more. He has also been published in print for Macworld, including cover stories. At iMore, Oliver is involved in daily news coverage and, not being short of opinions, has been known to 'explain' those thoughts in more detail, too. Having grown up using PCs and spending far too much money on graphics card and flashy RAM, Oliver switched to the Mac with a G5 iMac and hasn't looked back. Since then he's seen the growth of the smartphone world, backed by iPhone, and new product categories come and go. Current expertise includes iOS, macOS, streaming services, and pretty much anything that has a battery or plugs into a wall. Oliver also covers mobile gaming for iMore, with Apple Arcade a particular focus. He's been gaming since the Atari 2600 days and still struggles to comprehend the fact he can play console quality titles on his pocket computer.