The Books-A-Million chain's newest store takes over a familiar space for local bookworms just outside the Birmingham border in Beverly Hills.
When Borders announced it would close all its stores amid federal bankruptcy proceedings in 2011, many Birmingham-area residents like Kathy Sinclair felt a double-blow, of sorts. Not only did she and other local bookstore lovers lose the spacious Woodward Avenue store in the city's bustling downtown, but they also lost the quieter and easily-accessible location on Southfield Road, just beyond the Birmingham border in Beverly Hills. So Sinclair was understandably thrilled when the Books-A-Million store recently opened its doors for business at that same location. "This looks like it's a great store," she said at the chain's 'soft' opening last week. "But to me, it's more about a community connection. People want to come into a place and …
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The Detroit Free Press reports that the country's second-largest bookstore chain is looking to move into the empty space at 13 Mile and Southfield, formerly the home of Borders.
Even though the Birmingham Borders has been closed now for more than a year, the Birmingham area may be on its way to getting a new bookstore. Books-A-Million, the Alabama-based bookstore chain, has plans to move into the former Beverly Hills Borders location at the corner of 13 Mile and Southfield Road, the Detroit Free Press reports. Alongside its sister store in Birmingham, the Beverly Hills Borders shut its doors in mid-2011 after the Ann Arbor-based bookstore chain announced it would be closing the company's 399 stores nationwide after going bankrupt in mid-February. Since then, Birmingham book buyers have had to travel to Royal Oak, Troy and West Bloomfield to shop at Barnes & Noble locations, with no other mass market bookstores …
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R Jeppostol
8:41 am on Thursday, April 18, 2013
I wish them luck. I didn't think physical bookstores could survive anymore, but they seem to have some unique features to their store that might help make it survive the test of time(and the internet). more ›