Point Reyes Books in Point Reyes Station, Calif., is opening a new location in nearby Fairfax, Calif., this fall.
Store owners Molly Parent and Stephen Sparks plan to have the new store open by November 1. It will be smaller than the original store in Point Reyes Station, which Sparks and Parent purchased in 2017, and will be located at 9 Bolinas Rd. in downtown Fairfax. Given the store's smaller size, the owners don't plan to host events there on a regular basis, but they do intend to bring "some of the Point Reyes Books vision and curation" to the new location, which is not yet officially named.
In a message to customers announcing the new store, Parent and Sparks explained that they've never been interested in expansion for expansion's sake, but when they saw a "small, charming, and centrally located space for rent in Fairfax," they couldn't help but dream "of how we could apply what we've learned and built here in West Marin to a second store."
The original store, they noted, won't be "going anywhere or changing." They're currently looking for booksellers for the Fairfax store, and they plan to announce more details in the coming months.