Apple’s retail store in Santa Rosa, California will be moving from the Santa Rosa Plaza shopping mall to the open-air Montgomery Village shopping plaza later this month.
Apple Santa Rosa PlazaThe new store at Montgomery Village will be holding its grand opening on Friday, January 23, at 12 p.m. local time, according to Apple’s website.
Apple’s existing store at the Santa Rosa Plaza opened in 2004.
Elsewhere in California, Apple continues to renovate its store in Carlsbad, north of San Diego. Apple has a temporary location there, at 1925 Calle Barcelona. Apple is also operating out of a temporary store at the South Coast Plaza shopping mall in Costa Mesa, south of Los Angeles, while it renovates its original location there.
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