In another major move involving Tatnuck Bookseller, Larry Abramoff, who
closed the main Worcester, Mass., Tatnuck store earlier this month (Shelf Awareness, January 4), has sold the remaining store, in Westborough, to a local businessman, Eugene S. Colangelo, according to the Worcester Telegram.
Colangelo is general partner of Colangelo Massachusetts Real Estate Trust, which leased the space in the Westborough Shopping Center to Tatnuck when it opened there in October 2004.
Colangelo told the paper he will continue to operate the 31,000-sq.-ft. store as Tatnuck Bookseller and will retain "all 20 employees." Encouragingly he said that he wanted the store to be "an entity that is beyond a retail store . . . a cultural center that will provide a venue for a wide variety of literary and cultural events." The "community is clamoring for a bookstore of this caliber," he continued. "It was a natural decision to keep the store running."
Abramoff is staying on as a consultant.
Colangelo is general partner of Colangelo Massachusetts Real Estate Trust, which leased the space in the Westborough Shopping Center to Tatnuck when it opened there in October 2004.
Colangelo told the paper he will continue to operate the 31,000-sq.-ft. store as Tatnuck Bookseller and will retain "all 20 employees." Encouragingly he said that he wanted the store to be "an entity that is beyond a retail store . . . a cultural center that will provide a venue for a wide variety of literary and cultural events." The "community is clamoring for a bookstore of this caliber," he continued. "It was a natural decision to keep the store running."
Abramoff is staying on as a consultant.