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A new bookstore called the Book Shop is coming to Boston, Mass., in 2023. Per the Dorchester Reporter, the Book Shop will reside in a 1,300-square-foot space in a building in the Fields Corner area of Boston's Dorchester neighborhood that is under construction.
Called the Dot Crossing Apartments, the five-story building will be located at 1463 Dorchester Ave. and has been financed by more than 80 community investors. Those investors, as well as the wider community, chose to put a bookstore in the building. Bing Broderick, previously the executive director of the nonprofit Haley House, and Boston Poet Laureate Porsha Olayiwola, are leading the bookstore team.
"As residents of Dorchester, we look forward to opening our doors and providing a space for hospitality, creativity, collaboration and possibility," they wrote. "We look forward to working with the Fields Corner business community and the broader Dorchester community to build a thriving space for the future."
"We have these 80-plus investors and told them at the outset they would be part of any decisions on the building," said Miriam Gee, co-founder of CoEverything, a consulting firm that helps cooperative projects come to fruition. "One we anticipated them making was the retail decision.... This is totally new and no one has ever done this before as far as we know. We had to figure out the parameters and the process. We're kind of creating the model we're working on together."
In addition to the bookstore, the Dot Crossing Apartments will include 29 affordable housing units and is expected to open by June 2023. The Book Shop is tentatively slated to open in September 2023.