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| B&N Walnut Creek in progress | |
Barnes & Noble is opening a bookstore at 1192 Locust Street in the Plaza Escuela, Walnut Creek, Calif. This marks the return of the bookseller to the city where it closed a store in 2016. Nina LaCour, author of Yerba Buena, will be featured in a ribbon-cutting ceremony and do a book signing on September 7.
"We are very pleased to bring our bookstore back to Walnut Creek," said B&N CEO James Daunt. "Over the years so many bookstores, including many of our own, were forced to close their doors. It is wonderful now that an appreciation of good bookstores and an enthusiasm for reading is bringing a renaissance in bookselling. This will be a beautiful store, with a fabulous team of booksellers led by Allison Osborn. We thank the Walnut Creek community for the warm welcome with which they have greeted our return."
The opening of the new B&N follows the exit of Amazon Books from Walnut Creek when the online retailer closed all of its bookstores earlier this year.
Store manager Allison Osborn said: "We're incredibly excited to connect with readers in Walnut Creek and introduce them to this great bookstore we have created. It is to be so well stocked and with a brilliant program of store events, starting with our opening by Nina LaCour. Barnes & Noble will be a lively addition to the existing community events, with street fairs, art festivals and children's activities, all held right on the store's street front. There has been an absolutely overwhelming amount of positive feedback from our future customers who have already taken to social media to show their support!"