Not content to have the highest-grossing store on the world’s most expensive street, Apple is set to open a gargantuan retail outlet inside Grand Central Terminal, the massive train station in the heart of Manhattan, according to a new report. Rumors of the deal have been circulating for a few days, but Apple sleuth Leander Kahney says he’s confirmed that Apple will be opening the store sometime in the fall, most likely in early September. Apple has begun a super-secret quest for a store in historic Grand Central Terminal, potentially creating a hive of buzzing techies in the glamorous Beaux Arts landmark. This year is the 10th anniversary of Apple retail, and Apple wants to make a big splash, our source said. Apple’s retail operation has been a spectacular success, helping fuel the company’s explosive growth and creating shops that make twice as much money as Tiffany & Co. 
 
 
 
 Reports that Apple was looking at the New York landmark first appeared last week in The New York Observer and IFOAppleStore.com. For its part, MTA Real Estate/ Retail+Leasing division, which will have the final word on any new store, offered this careful response: “We select tenants through a public process that features a formal request for proposals,” said Aaron Donovan, a spokesman for the MTA. Kahney says the outlet will become the largest Apple retail location in the world and be called Apple Store, Grand Central. At present, the largest Apple store is the Covent Garden location in London, which measures in at 16,732 square feet of publicly accessible space. Last time I checked, there wasn’t a 16,000 square-foot chunk of unoccupied retail space inside Grand Central, through which 700,000 people — mostly commuters — travel each weekday. “We’re not authorized to speak about that,” said the woman who answered the phone for Grand Central‘s leasing agent, Williams Jackson Ewing. Apple is most famous for its glass cube on Fifth Avenue (the fifth most-photographed site in New York City) and a similar store on the Upper West Side.
– Bust out the Big Apple jokes: Steve Jobs and company will open their largest store yet in the fall—inside Grand Central Terminal in New York City, reports Cult of Mac. The store will be called "Apple, Grand Central" and is expected to start doing business in September, insiders tell the website. Rumors of the plan surfaced earlier in the New York Observer. Wired loves the idea: "The move would help alleviate the immense traffic at Apple’s flagship store on Fifth Avenue," writes Sam Gustin. "For years now, it’s been increasingly difficult to do business there in a timely way, except for late at night. On weekends and over holidays, the store is virtually impassible, clogged by throngs of tourists from around the globe."