Barnes & Noble will open new stores tomorrow, Wednesday, August 28, in Syracuse, N.Y., and Santa Monica, Calif.
The Syracuse store resides in the Destiny USA shopping center at 9868 Destiny USA Drive, and occupies a space that formerly belonged to a Banana Republic store. It will officially open to the public at 10 a.m. on Wednesday.
The Santa Monica store, meanwhile, is located on the city's Third Street Promenade at 1318 3rd St., in a space that once belonged to iconic independent bookstore Midnight Special. The store will open at 10 a.m. Wednesday with a ribbon cutting and signing featuring author Olivie Blake. The opening marks the return of B&N to the Third Street Promenade; B&N's previous location there closed in 2018.
The Syracuse and Santa Monica stores are among the four new B&Ns to open this month. The company plans to open more than 50 this year.