Apple’s new store in San Francisco’s Union Square is now open. Fifteen years after opening its first store, Apple has rebooted its store design. The new Apple store boasts a 50 foot green wall, 42-foot tall sliding glass doors, a 6k video wall, and uses 100% renewable energy. But here is some information not found in the press release and instead uncovered from Buildzoom’s national building permit database.

San Diego based Ledcor Construction was responsible for the majority of the $23.6 million project estimated in building permits.

Permits reveal work on a unique canopy and the open framing for the building and also teach us these interesting things:

* The initial permit for this project was the building’s shell, which had an estimated value of $19 million.

* The staircases in the new store were integral to the design and racked up a $1.1 million job value.

* A 50 KW photovoltaic array is used to power the entire site and the installation of the panels had a job value of $800,000.

* The signs for the new store required two permits on their own. A $2,000 permit to mount a stainless steel sign and a $80,000 permit to install a sign in the ground.

* The giant video wall in “The Forum”, the store’s gathering place, required $50,000 worth of structural supports.

* The mobile storage shelving required a $50,000 permit to build.

* To account for San Francisco earthquakes, four seismic-related permits were filed for the project.

Ten of the sixty some odd permits filed for this project contained revisions or corrections in the description, which makes us think that there were a lot of changes made mid-project.

You can track future work and view all permits for address, and all other addresses, at the property’s Buildzoom page.

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