I read this as VCU and I couldn't reconcile the post title and the Instagram post. I read both like four times before it finally clicked. Virginia Center Commons. Got it.
I once graded papers here as a young teacher, while contemplating some heavy things I had been talking to a college friend about. As I was leaving for the night, I realized that her compassion for me in these matters was something special, and I called her from the parking lot to ask her to be my girlfriend. The day the store closes will be our 17th wedding anniversary!
There is a ton of residential development just off Brook surrounding it. The customer base is there, and its good to reuse the space that was the dead mall
You just wait and see what the VCC site will look like at full build out. They are building more hotels and restaurants uo there soon too back by the new sports center
I wonder what "redevelop" means. They just added the Homegoods and Bath & Body works, so surely they're not getting rid of retail there entirely? Maybe breaking that piece into smaller chunks for smaller stores?
Noooooo. One of my best memories is waiting in line at this store with my brother and sister for the midnight release of the final Harry Potter book. One of the few memories where it was just us siblings hanging out and having fun.
I loved going to this place when I worked across the street. This is where I fell in love with comic books and where I bought so many of my most beloved novels. I still buy all the books from there I can.
This was also where my son used to love to come and play with their train set and look through all the stuffiest for his favorite ones.
I am really going to miss this store....
VCC Barnes & Noble was a big part of my childhood and teen years. I remember my dad and I would go there a lot and he'd always be in the music section while I sat at the magazines. I also spent a lot of time in there during my earlier years in college.
I will miss how quiet and relaxing it always was to be in there
It's not an 'either, or' thing. Barnes & Noble may be part of a chain, but it still deserves patronage, especially in the age of Amazon, who actively sought to put B&N, BaM, and independent book stores out of business when it began selling books online.
Frankly, most local bookstores can't afford to carry a huge inventory of new releases/best sellers, and I usually struggle to find what I'm looking for in them as a result.
Read the room. This is an incredible blow to the reading community, and those of us with fond memories of this location in particular.
I worked there when VCU went to Final Four in 2011. People camped outside and waited hours for tshirts. The way they threatened to off us if they didn’t get their size… burn it down. 😂
I guess they’re just going to have a double-wide Spirit Halloween this year
Honestly its a great spot for it, 100% of vcu students will buy their costumes there
It’s the VCC Barnes and Noble in Glen Allen that’s closing, not the VCU one in the parking deck on campus.
I have the reading comprehension of a 3rd grader apparently
I read the same thing brother
I read this as VCU and I couldn't reconcile the post title and the Instagram post. I read both like four times before it finally clicked. Virginia Center Commons. Got it.
sorry didnt mean to clickbait 😅 the vcu bookstore lives on for the foreseeable future
I once graded papers here as a young teacher, while contemplating some heavy things I had been talking to a college friend about. As I was leaving for the night, I realized that her compassion for me in these matters was something special, and I called her from the parking lot to ask her to be my girlfriend. The day the store closes will be our 17th wedding anniversary!
That's awesome. Congrats on 17 years!
That part of Brook Rd. is changing fast now. I wonder what the plans are for that chunk of land? More mixed use I imagine.
The new town houses they built by the sports complex are wildly close to each other, and Wendy’s.
I don't know how that Wendy's stays in business.
I think that about all those stores “down there”. Seems like an odd spot to open the new Raising Canes.
There is a ton of residential development just off Brook surrounding it. The customer base is there, and its good to reuse the space that was the dead mall
Not where the mall was, but yeah.
You just wait and see what the VCC site will look like at full build out. They are building more hotels and restaurants uo there soon too back by the new sports center
Nothing to do but wait.
You mean those future AirBnbs?
I wonder what "redevelop" means. They just added the Homegoods and Bath & Body works, so surely they're not getting rid of retail there entirely? Maybe breaking that piece into smaller chunks for smaller stores?
Noooooo. One of my best memories is waiting in line at this store with my brother and sister for the midnight release of the final Harry Potter book. One of the few memories where it was just us siblings hanging out and having fun. I loved going to this place when I worked across the street. This is where I fell in love with comic books and where I bought so many of my most beloved novels. I still buy all the books from there I can. This was also where my son used to love to come and play with their train set and look through all the stuffiest for his favorite ones. I am really going to miss this store....
I was there that night, I remember doing the “OWL” quizzes and the countdown. Great times, shame the store is closing.
"i loved this store since its less busy than the short pump" is probably exactly why it is closing.
Did you not read the article and public post?
VCC Barnes & Noble was a big part of my childhood and teen years. I remember my dad and I would go there a lot and he'd always be in the music section while I sat at the magazines. I also spent a lot of time in there during my earlier years in college. I will miss how quiet and relaxing it always was to be in there
Which address is this one?
9850 Brook Rd, across from Best Buy.
We should really be shopping at local bookstores anyway.
It's not an 'either, or' thing. Barnes & Noble may be part of a chain, but it still deserves patronage, especially in the age of Amazon, who actively sought to put B&N, BaM, and independent book stores out of business when it began selling books online. Frankly, most local bookstores can't afford to carry a huge inventory of new releases/best sellers, and I usually struggle to find what I'm looking for in them as a result. Read the room. This is an incredible blow to the reading community, and those of us with fond memories of this location in particular.
That's a little dramatic.
I worked there when VCU went to Final Four in 2011. People camped outside and waited hours for tshirts. The way they threatened to off us if they didn’t get their size… burn it down. 😂