Bub's Bookstore will open in downtown Carson City, Nev., later this year, Carson Now reported.
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Located at 110 S. Curry St., Bub's Bookstore will sell new books for all ages. Among the general-interest inventory, owners Rob Fuller and Demi Pettway plan to highlight local authors, Northern Nevada history, and outdoor recreation. They hope Bub's Bookstore will be a third place for the Carson City community, and their plans for events include book clubs, movie nights, and more.
To help open the bookstore, Pettway and Fuller have launched a GoFundMe campaign with a goal of $2,800. So far, they've raised $2,200, which will go toward inventory, rent, licenses, and other start-up costs.
Even before deciding to open a bookstore, Fuller and Pettway knew they wanted to provide a third space for Carson City residents. Petty told Carson Now they found it jarring to leave college and find the "real world" lacking in community spaces. "So we would like to create a place for community, for education, for people to connect with each other."
They honed in on the idea of opening a bookstore after reading the results of a Reno Gazette Journal survey that showed most readers in the area spent time at restaurants.
"There's no real third spaces in Carson," said Fuller. "People want to have a place where they don't feel pressured to buy something or get a drink or go somewhere just to eat or whatever--they can just kind of hang out and exist. So we ran with it."
Pettway and Fuller officially signed a lease for the space in late March, with renovation work to start mid-April. They are aiming for a June opening.