Bibliobar, a general-interest bookstore and bar, has found a bricks-and-mortar location in Plano, Tex.
Located within the Plano Shopping Co-Op in the historic Schell Building in Plano's downtown, Bibliobar officially opened on March 18 and carries titles for all ages and serves wine, beer, coffee, and more.
Store owner Chelsea Green has event plans that include book clubs for both children and adults, educational workshops, storytime sessions, wine tastings, game nights, author signings, and more. There is also a podcast in the works, with details to be announced.
Green and her sister-in-law BriAnne Gowen-Tresp founded the Co-Op, and in addition to Bibliobar it includes Gowen-Tresp's clothing store Vintage Gnomey. Green has experience in both the bookselling in publishing industries: for seven years she worked for a bookstore chain, and for four years worked for a major publisher in New York.
Eventually she chose to move back to Texas to be closer to her family, she recalled, but she "wanted to keep my love of working in the book industry alive."
Green founded Bibliobar as a pop-up in 2018, but most operations went on hiatus between 2020-2022. Last winter she began work on finding Bibliobar its bricks-and-mortar home.