The Best Bookstore in Palm Springs has reopened in its new home in Palm Springs, Calif., NBC Palm Springs reported. The bookstore, which announced earlier this summer that it would be relocating due to a dispute with its landlord, now resides at 113 La Plaza, within the historic Plaza Shopping Center. The new space is larger than the bookstore's previous home and has better foot traffic, co-owner Paul Bradley Carr told NBC. He also called the plaza "one of the most iconic places in Palm Springs."
The dispute with the previous landlords came about after the bookstore's air conditioning failed over Fourth of July weekend. When Carr and store co-owner Sarah Lacy reached out to the shop's landlord about getting the unit repaired, the landlord refused, and the bookstore was left without AC in an area that often sees extreme heat in the summer.
Eventually, the landlord offered to pay either 50% of the repair costs for the AC or to let them out of their lease early; Carr and Lacy chose the latter option. Once they decided to move, Lacy and Carr ran a "buy two, get one free" sale at the store and began raising funds to help with the move.
"Palm Springs will forever be a city with a bookstore if I have anything to do with it," Carr told NBC.