Good news: Chester County Book and Music Company, West Chester, Pa., which closed last month, has signed a lease on a 6,000-square-foot space "two doors down" in the West Goshen Shopping Center, where it had been located since 1987, the Daily Local reported. The store plans to re-open "this spring."
"It just seems like the perfect size, and of course, it's the perfect location for us," owner Kathy Simoneaux said. "It's where everyone expects to see us."
She added that after the owners gave the store notice late last year, they suggested she consider the space. "I didn't even have a lease signed, but they allowed us to move the fixtures that we were going to use in the future into that space. So they're already there, and we'll be ordering books fresh and starting from scratch."
The former space amounted to 28,000 square feet, which had become too large. Last year, Simoneaux planned to close, but was encouraged by customers to stay in business. According to store tweets, the new iteration of Chester County Book and Music Company will not stock music.
