The new bookstore will be on the retail-heavy Route 110 corridor in a small shopping center whose only other tenant is a Men's Wearhouse.

It has been nearly a year-and-a-half since Center City’s new Barnes and Noble store opened and while it has less space than its old Rittenhouse Square location, it has done more sales, writes Jake Blumgart for The Philadelphia Inquirer.

A year and a half after it opened, Center City's new Barnes & Noble is doing more sales with less space than the old Rittenhouse Square location.

The build-out is projected to cost $475,000, according to city documents. Barnes & Noble’s expansion plans this year mark its largest in 15 years, CEO James Daunt told Publishers Weekly earlier this year.

Barnes and Noble decided to try something new for this year’s National Read-A-Book Day, writes Peter Crimmins for WHYY. Rather than placing books