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| Flintridge will move from this location in February. | |
Peter and Lenora Wannier, owners of Flintridge Bookstore & Coffeehouse in La Cañada Flintridge, Calif., have signed a lease on a new space, La Cañada Valley Sun reported.
In February, the bookstore will move into a smaller space at 858 Foothill Blvd., less than 400 yards away from its current location. The 2,300-square-foot site was once the home of a Citizens Business Bank and is just over a third of the size of the store's current space. Wannier plans to move the store section by section, so as not to disrupt business during the move, and while the bookstore will no longer have a cafe, there will likely still be some kind of community space.
"My vision of this is not that we'd pack everything into a million boxes," Wannier told the Valley Sun. "If we move a piece at a time there might be a section or two in flux but we're basically open and can make sales."
The Wanniers opened the store in 2007 and put the building on the market in June. In November, they sold the building for $4.9 million to a mortgage lender. The new lease is for five years with a three-year option.