The furnishings store will is expected to open some time in the summer
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- Jason Lea
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Thursday, December 20, 2012
The former Borders bookstore in Mentor has been empty since April 2011 -- but not for much longer. HomeGoods, a home furnishings store, is moving into the 22,000-square-foot space in the Creekside Common Shopping Plaza near the border of Mentor and Painesville Township. They will be retrofitting the building and hope to open by the summer of 2013, said Mentor Economic and Community Development Director Ron Traub. "HomeGoods is a new national retailer and we're pleased that they have chosen to come to Mentor," Traub said. HomeGoods, a TJX Company, was introduced in 1992 and operates more than 300 stores across the country. It sells name-brand home décor, bedding, cookware, furniture and seasonal gifts at 20 to 60 percent off specialty and …
The bookstore has been closed for more than a year. What do you want to see take its place?
The Mentor Borders bookstore closed more than a year ago after its parent company filed for bankruptcy. Since then, the 22,000-square-foot building has remained empty despite a good location as a cornerstone store in a major shopping plaza on Mentor Avenue. We want to know — what would you like to see in the space? Another book store? Something completely different? Tell us in the comments section below.
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Independent booksellers like Suzanne DeGaetano didn’t exactly do a jig when larger competitors left the market twice in the past year and a half. DeGaetano’s Cleveland Heights-based Mac’s Backs-Books on Coventry gained customers following the closures of Joseph-Beth Booksellers in Lyndhurst and a Borders location in Beachwood, but the avid reader and business supporter in her couldn’t allow the co-owner to rejoice. “It’s really kind of a tragedy when a big room of books is no longer there,” she said. “We know people in the publishing industry, and it’s bad for them because a lot of people got their jobs cut. A lot of books aren’t being sold now.” Borders, once the country’s second-largest bookseller, closed last summer. It employed about …
Linda Gamiere
2:04 pm on Thursday, April 25, 2013
Very excited for HG to be in Mentor! Now let's work on getting a Trader Joe's more ›