The new headquarters for the Portland, Ore., nonprofit Literary Arts will include a bookstore and cafe run by Literary Arts, the Portland Tribune reported.
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Renovations are underway on a 14,000-square-foot building that will serve as the art organization's new headquarters. In addition to the bookstore and cafe, there will be "a classroom and event space, writing areas, staff offices, and a recording studio," noted the Tribune.
The bookstore will reside on the building's first floor and feature movable bookshelves that will allow staff to create ample room for events. Literary Arts executive director Andrew Proctor added that the bookstore "will be designed to be a nice, independent bookstore. We're glad to join the community of booksellers."
Literary Arts previously leased a headquarters at 925 S.W. Washington St.; it owns the new headquarters at 716 S.E. Grand Ave., which happens to be close to several methods of public transportation. Not all of the organization's events will be held at the new headquarters, the Tribune added. The Portland Book Festival will remain in the South Park Blocks and Portland Arts & Lectures will continue to be held at the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall.
While Literary Arts has not announced a specific opening date, it expects the new headquarters to be ready in the fall.