Apple Continues to Have Trouble Building in Georgetown Over Store Design Issues

While an Apple retail outlet often has the most attractive storefront design of anything at your local mall, their minimalism doesn’t always fly everywhere. That’s the case playing out right now in Washington D.C.’s swanky-yet-colonial Georgetown neighborhood. The two committees in charge of keeping Georgetown looking like Georgetown have said no to Apple’s submitted plans for this new location, complete with their standard glowing logo out front, saying it strays too far from the image the neighborhood has cultivated and that it “the design turned the building into a billboard.”