Downtown Colorado Springs, Colo., "can boast of several new shopping, dining, drinking and entertainment options, and there's more in the works," the Colorado Springs Business Journal reported in a piece headlined "City center's resurgence filling vacancies." Among the new businesses contributing to the renaissance is Mountain Fold Books, a nonprofit LLC founded by Marina Eckler and Jonathan Fey that is expected to open in mid-October.
"We wanted to bring in a literary center that was somewhere between a library, reading room and bookstore," Fey said. "It's nonprofit and it's going [to operate] mainly through membership donations. It's free to be a member, but we encourage donations along with membership, and we'll have a retail element as well.... It will be mainly a small-press bookstore. There are only a few other small-press bookstores in the U.S., which should help distinguish us from all of the other great literary forces already in Colorado Springs."
