Barnes and Noble Signs Lease For Port Orange FL Store!
January 25th, 2008 Categories: Port Orange FL Neighborhoods, Port Orange Real Estate
Barnes and Noble Is coming to Port Orange FL!!!
I was so excited this morning after reading MarketWatch to hear that the largest bookseller announced they signed a lease agreement to open a Barnes and Noble in Port Orange FL. The bookstore is expected to open march 2009 and will be located in The Pavilion at Port Orange on the northwest corner of I95 and Dunlawton Ave.!!!
The store will stock close to 200,000 book, music, DVD and magazine titles and include a cafe serving Starbucks coffee.
Port Orange Spruce Creek students and Palmer students start getting excited. According to MarketWatch, heres some of the great features Barnes and Noble are bringing to their Port Orange store!!
Rapid special-order service.
Cant find it on the shelf? Barnes & Nobles massive warehouse inventory is available in real-time, enabling its booksellers to order and confirm the availability of over one million titles at the click of a button.
Large-scale childrens departments.
Bigger than most typical bookstores and stocking over 15,000 titles in an easy-to-browse environment, Barnes & Noble Jr. departments are designed to appeal to children, parents, teachers and librarians. Childrens story hours will be held three times a week.
Advanced technology
Music-listening and movie-previewing system. The stores music department will feature RedDotNet, the most advanced listening and previewing technology. RedDotNet enables customers to listen to any CD in the store, sampling up to 270,000 music titles by simply passing it under a scanner. Connected to the companys online electronic music catalog, the stores listening stations make browsing with your ears a reality. Thanks to the latest technology, RedDotNet stations also allow customers to view a three-minute clip of up to 60,000 DVDs.
Giant Newsstand.
The stores newsstand stocks over 2,000 titles, including hundreds of hard-to-find specialty magazines, out-of-town and even foreign newspapers.
Wi-Fi Service
AT&T Wi-Fi(SM) service allows customers to use their laptop computers and personal digital assistants anywhere in the store or cafe to communicate online, surf the Internet and connect to corporate networks at speeds 50 to 100 times as fast as a dial-up connection. A single two-hour session costs $3.95, and an annual membership with unlimited access to Barnes & Noble and more than 10,700 AT&T Wi-Fi hot spots is available for $19.95 per month (with a one-year commitment).
Community Center
The Barnes & Noble store will serve as a local community center, hosting a number of community events throughout the year. They will include author readings and discussions, book clubs, and programs with local literary and cultural organizations. The store will also hold bookfairs, partnering with local schools and other community institutions.
