Loyalty Bookstore's second location, in downtown Silver Spring, Md., which began as a holiday pop-up shop two years ago and became a bricks-and-mortar location last fall, will remain in the neighborhood for the foreseeable future, thanks to a new long-term lease.
“It has been too long since Silver Spring had a permanent new bookstore," said founder and co-owner Hannah Oliver Depp. Prior to opening the Silver Spring location, Loyalty Bookstore was also a fixture at the downtown Silver Spring Farmer's Market. "The resurgence of independent bookstores across the country has found a home in Downtown Silver Spring thanks to the great landlord partners we have in Pertersons."
The Silver Spring location will be closed for the rest of January while the store undergoes some light renovations designed to make more of the space accessible to customers. Depp and her team are planning for a grand reopening in early February.In early 2019, Depp purchased the Washington, D.C., indie Upshur Street Books from original owner Paul Ruppert and reopened it as Loyalty Bookstore following a renovation, name change and shift in focus to diverse and intersectional fiction and nonfiction, as well as children's books. Last spring, she added Gene Taft as a partner investor and marketing strategist.