After a long-anticipated wait, Singapore’s first Apple store will finally open for business on May 27.
The opening date was announced late Tuesday night in a notice pasted outside the tech giant's upcoming store at Knightsbridge Mall, TODAY reported on Wednesday. This came two weeks after the store’s name -- Apple Orchard Road -- was revealed.
Plans for the Apple store at Orchard Road, Southeast Asia’s first, were leaked nearly a year and a half ago. In October 2015, a former tenant at the mall, Pure Fitness, informed its members saying it was closing down in order to make way for Apple.
Apple Orchard Road is expected to occupy four floors of the Knightsbridge Mall -- from Basement 1 to Level 3 -- according to construction plans that were placed at the storefront’s barricade previously.
In November 2015, Singapore-based solar energy provider Sunseap Group said it was providing Apple’s operations in Singapore -- including the Apple Orchard Road store -- with 100% clean energy using rooftop solar installations. Apple’s current corporate office at One North is also entirely powered by solar energy, making the company the first in Singapore to run exclusively on renewable energy.