Not confirmed but seems inevitable, according to Crain's.

Weirdly snide comment above aside, getting an Apple store is like the final boss of this forum, right? How long have people been talking about the ever elusive downtown Apple Store here? 15 years?

I think Lowell should pop a bottle of champagne tonight and celebrate the culmination of what feels like thousands of posts hoping, wishing, praying and dreaming about an Apple Store on Woodward. In fact, it feels strange for this news to quietly break on this nondescript thread and not one of the original threads.