Report: Apple Plans to Remove Steel Fencing Around Portland, OR Store

Apple Pioneer Place (Steel Fencing Not Included) - Image via Apple

06 MAY 2022 - Apple’s Pioneer Place store in Portland, Oregon appears to be up for a friendlier look. Apple Insider highlights a report from Oregon Live that says the company plans to remove the steel fencing that’s fronted the location for over a year. According to Apple Insider:

The [location] has been protected by a steel fence since February 2021. At that point, it had been closed for nine months, in part because of the coronavirus lockdown.

However, the store had also been looted and vandalized after the George Floyd riots in May 2020. 

All of that and a fire as well, though the store stayed open after that. Here’s the thing: The store is surrounded on three side by glass, which - it has been proven - is breakable. Apple has a plan, though: a transparent polycarbonate enclosure. That would “ be placed around 30 inches out from the existing glass facade,” according to the report.