What you want to know
- Google will open a Google Retailer location in Austin, Texas.
- The Google Area Northside retail retailer will develop into Google’s seventh U.S. location.
- It’ll be the corporate’s first retail growth into Texas, which can mark the fifth U.S. state with a Google Retailer.
Google has been slowly however steadily growing its retail footprint throughout the U.S. since Google Chelsea opened up in 2021. It introduced two extra Google Retailer places in 2024, together with Google Santa Monica, which hasn’t opened to the general public but. Now, the corporate has added a seventh location to its Google Retailer web page — and it’s coming to Austin, Texas.
Not a lot details about the Texas retail retailer is understood, as there aren’t even renders obtainable at this level. Nonetheless, as 9to5Google first noticed, it’s set to reach in Area Northside in Austin, which is a mixed-use growth with retailers, eating places, workplace house, and extra. The shop’s tackle can be 11701 Area Blvd, Austin, and all we all know for positive is that it’s “coming quickly.”
We’re nonetheless ready on Google’s Santa Monica location to open, which was introduced final yr as Google’s second California location and sixth U.S. retailer. It joins the Mountain View, California retailer close to Google’s personal headquarters. Google opened shops in Massachusetts and Illinois in 2024, and appears poised to open not less than two retail shops in 2025 as nicely.
Google Retailer retail places are essential to the corporate increasing its market share within the U.S., particularly by the Google Pixel machine lineup. Its largest opponents, Apple and Google, have already got a major quantity of U.S. places the place clients can study their merchandise, purchase them, and get restore and repair assist.
Put merely, Google is behind on this space and its present tempo of including not less than two shops per yr — particularly ones outdoors of New York and California — is a giant step in the fitting route. The Austin location, when open, will make Texas the fifth state to have a Google Retailer.