Catherine Carter has found a location for her bookstore, The Dog-Eared Page, in Danville, Va., and plans to open by the end of the summer, WSET reported.
The store will sell mostly new books, and will reside at 525 Main Street in Danville's River District, in a building that previously housed an insurance agency. It will be the first bookstore to open in the River District in years.
Earlier this year Carter received a $25,000 grant from the Dream Launch business bootcamp and pitch competition to help her open the bookstore. She told The Morning Jam on VTRN that the idea to open a store grew out of a book club that she organized with her coworkers during the pandemic. The members started talking one day about how nice it would be to have a place to meet, and from there Carter started thinking about opening a bookstore of her own.
Carter noted that as the country is moving out of the pandemic, people are once again wanting to connect with others. "You can't just get that ordering a book on Amazon or downloading something on a Kindle."
She added that as soon as she saw the old insurance building she thought, "that's gonna be my store," even before she received the grant.