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Renaissance Books at Milwaukee's General Mitchell International Airport |
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The Bookshop in Milwaukee, Wis., which opened in 2012 in the Grand Avenue mall, has closed in order to relocate to a roughly 5,000-square-foot space in the Southridge Mall in Greendale, Wis., the Journal Sentinel reported.
The store will reopen under the name Renaissance Bookshop and carry new and used titles--previously, the store carried only used books. Its new space in the Southridge Mall once belonged to a Toys R Us, and the move has come after the Grand Avenue mall's owners began construction to turn that mall into a mix of apartments, offices and retail.
Robert John, The Bookshop's owner, also owns Renaissance Books, which currently has a branch in Milwaukee's General Mitchell International Airport. For decades, Renaissance Books also had a huge store in downtown Milwaukee, in a five-story building that had once been a furniture warehouse. That branch was closed in 2011 after the city declared the building "unfit for occupancy."
John told the Journal Sentinel that he expects the new Renaissance Bookshop to open soon.