The Tattered Cover Book Store location in Lower Downtown Denver, Colo., is consolidating into the first floor and will no longer use the second floor, the Denver Business Journal reported. The first floor has 12,666 square feet of space; the second floor has 15,109.
"Our present two-floor retail configuration will stay intact through the holiday season," owner Joyce Meskis told the Journal. "In January, we will start the demolition of the [store's] grand staircase with the goal of being resettled in our reconfigured first-floor space by mid-March." The reconfigured store will have "approximately the same number of books," with shelves "much more tightly packed."
Meskis added that first-floor space now used for back-office and marketing will be converted to retail, and some back-office space will be moved to Tattered Cover's flagship store on East Colfax Avenue.
Last month, the Journal reported that a real estate agent was advertising the Tattered Cover space in the building while the store was in lease negotiations. The store has been in the location, in the Morey Mercantile Building, since 1994.
