Greenlight Goes Ahead with Expansion

Greenlight Bookstore, Brooklyn, N.Y., is leasing space next to the store that formerly housed a patisserie; it plans to use some of the space for offices as well as collaborate with the Greene Grape, which will open a coffee bar and a full professional kitchen in the space. The Green Grape has a wine store and a gourmet grocery store called Provisions across the street. The company will use the new kitchen to make food that will be sold in Provisions as well as for catered events. The Greene Grape Annex is scheduled to open in early August.

Greenlight will shift buying, receiving, bookkeeping, shipping and other functions to the new office space, which will make the sales floor less cluttered. The additional room will also help Greenlight handle large-scale projects better. As the store has grown since its October 2009 opening, an expansion of its workspace has become "increasingly necessary," the store said.

Greenlight and the Greene Grape plan to collaborate on joint events in the new space, from book group meetings to cookbook events and other food- and book-related happenings.

"It's a sign of how both of our businesses are growing, and that growth is thanks to the support from our Brooklyn neighbors," said Jessica Stockton Bagnulo, who owns Greenlight with Rebecca Fitting. "We think this will be a great resource for our customers, and make the neighborhood of Fort Greene an even more wonderful place to spend time."

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