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Barnes & Noble will return to Jonesboro, Ark., after an absence of around three years, Talk Business & Politics reported. The new store will reside in the Crossroads Shopping Center in a space that once housed a Pier One store. An exact timetable for the reopening has not been announced.
In March 2020, shortly after the Covid-19 pandemic began, a tornado swept through Jonesboro and destroyed the B&N along with most of the surrounding shopping mall. In September 2020 the bookstore chain announced that it would not be reopening the store after doing business in Jonesboro for 14 years.
The closure left a void in Jonesboro and surrounding communities, and a number of independent bookstores have opened in northeast Arkansas since, including Stardust and Stories Bookstore, Weber's Book House and Verb Bookstore.