Cape Atlantic Book Company aims to open in Cape May, N.J., by this coming weekend on the second floor of the City Centre Mall on the Washington Street pedestrian mall, Newsworks reported. It will share the floor with a new café.
The new store's owners are Tony Herr, who was manager of the former Atlantic Books shop in Cape May, and Patrick Young. Atlantic Books went out of business late last year and closed its small chain of stores in New Jersey, Delaware and Pennsylvania. Young commented: "The larger chains of bookstores are just dropping all over the place. But a bookstore can work in Cape May. It's a totally different animal. It's a boutique city."
This is the second store replacing departing Atlantic Books shops: last fall Stone Harbor Book Shop opened in the former Atlantic Books site in nearby Stone Harbor, N.J.
