After closing a store in Reston, Va., in 2013, Barnes & Noble is returning with a store that will open in late spring or early summer, Connection Newspapers reported. Including a café, the location will have 28,000 square feet of space, making it the largest store B&N has opened in a decade, a spokesperson told the newspaper. Most new B&N stores are around 15,000 square feet in size.
The new store is opening in the Spectrum at Reston Town Center, the site of its previous store, and will be a major tenant. Lerner Enterprises, the developer and owner of the Spectrum, had decided not to renew B&N's lease a decade ago, but now is welcoming it back. In the past couple of years, several major Spectrum tenants, including Best Buy, Office Depot and Starbucks, have closed their branches there.
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In another example of returning to an area after a long absence, Barnes & Noble plans to open a store in the Dalewood Shopping Center, in Hartsdale, N.Y., in Westchester County, according to lohud.com. The planned 12,490-square-feet store is "the type of business that will help revitalize the Central Ave. business corridor," town supervisor Paul Feiner said.
Until 2007, B&N had a store nearby on Central Ave. in Hartsdale, which it closed because, at the time, retailers were leaving the area.
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Barnes & Noble has closed one of its two stores in Rochester Hills, Mich., the Oakland Press reported. The closed B&N was the larger and older of the two; the remaining B&N is one of the company's first smaller, redesigned "new concept" stores and opened in 2019. It is six miles from the closed B&N.