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By Any Beans Necessary, a coffee shop and bookstore, will open later this year at 3006 First Ave. in the Highland Park neighborhood of Richmond, Va. Mo Karnage is leasing a space next door to the building at 3008 First Ave., which is owned by Karnage and serves as headquarters for their construction company, Karnage Construction, Richmond BizSense reported. Karnage founded the firm in 2014, and focuses on historical preservation work as well as other construction services.
In addition to coffee and books, By Any Beans Necessary is also planning to offer a consignment space dedicated to crafts and gifts made by locals. Karnage is aiming to launch the retail side in June, with the cafe debuting by July or August.
"I'm counting on them to piggyback off each other. Three separate draws for separate audiences," they said. "I think they go together pretty well and I know a lot of bookstore places have a gift-style retail area."
The cafe will have seating for 30 to 40 people in the 1,700-square-foot space, and will also have a small, rentable conference room. The bookstore side of the business will split its inventory roughly 50-50 between new and used books.
"I'm going to have a larger-than-normal number of radical queer feminist books and I'm going to have a section specifically for books banned by various Virginia school districts," Karnage said. "I want it to be a pretty comprehensive bookstore in terms of there being a little bit of everything."