Barnes & Noble will open its new bookstore in First & Main Town Center at 3173 Cinema Point, Colorado Springs, Colo., on Wednesday, March 4. The event will feature Rebecca Yarros (the Empyrean series).
The 18,000-square-foot store, with mountain views, is new construction in the large shopping area, and includes a B&N Café. It joins two other B&N stores in the city and is the third new location to open in Colorado in the last two years.
"Bookstores are enjoying an extraordinary renaissance, with new Barnes & Noble stores opening across the country, as also so many new independent bookstores," B&N said. "What could be more exciting than to have Rebecca Yarros opening our latest, in Colorado Springs. No author better exemplifies the excitement of books and reading, and the unique pleasures of bookstores as places of discovery."
Also on Wednesday, B&N will open its new Downtown Hyde Park bookstore in Hyde Park Shopping Center at 524 E 55th St., Chicago, Ill. Author Lindsay Currie will be cutting the ribbon and signing copies of her novel X Marks the Haunt.
The 18,000-square-foot store, which includes a B&N Café, will be joined this summer by two more B&N stores, each located in historic buildings: the Marshall Field building at 1144 Lake St. in Oak Park and the Butler Building at 150 N. State St. in the West Loop.
"Barnes & Noble cements its return to Chicago after a long absence," the company said. "The new bookstores in Wicker Park and Clark & Diversey have been stand-out successes, and are now followed in quick succession with new bookstores in Hyde Park, Oak Park, and the West Loop."