Barnes & Noble hosted a ribbon cutting and grand-opening celebration last Wedneday, July 3, in its new Weslayan Plaza bookstore at 5510 Weslayan St., Houston, Tex. Author Katherine Center was on hand to cut the ribbon and sign copies of her books. The new location also houses an updated B&N Café.
"Bookstores are such an important pillar in any community, and it's wonderful to see how warmly residents are welcoming the Weslayan Plaza location," B&N noted. "It's been 15 years since we last opened a new Barnes & Noble in the Houston area, and this bookstore will prove to have been worth the wait."
A week earlier, B&N opened its new Rochester Hills, Mich., bookstore in the Hampton Village Shopping Center at 2907 S. Rochester Rd., where author Lauren Roberts cut the ribbon and signed copies of her books.
B&N noted: "We are thrilled to be expanding our presence in Oakland County with the opening of our new bookstore in Rochester Hills. We've seen such growth in the literary community over the last three decades since we opened our first location in Rochester, adding a second bookstore in the Village of Rochester Hills in 2019. When redevelopment forced the closure of our original bookstore last year, we promised to return. Now we have, directly across the street from where we spent the last 27 years."