Flintridge Bookstore & Coffeehouse in La Cañada Flintridge, Calif., will move to a smaller location in February following the sale of the bookstore's building, the La Cañada Valley Sun reported.
Store owners Peter and Lenora Wannier, who originally opened the store in 2007, put the building on the market in June and sold it earlier this month for $4.9 million to Glendale mortgage lender House America. Flintridge will remain in its current storefront as a lessee of House America until February, with the mortgage lender set to take over the space in March.
Peter Wannier told the Valley Sun that the new space will be smaller and will not include a coffee shop, but otherwise did not give any more details.
"We'll still have some people meeting at our site, but we're not going to continue running the coffee shop part of the business," he said. "It will be a smaller space that will be more in keeping with the size of the town and its needs."
He added that he hopes the transition will be as seamless as possible, with the bookstore closing for only a few days during the move.