{"id":8432,"date":"2013-10-28T22:54:51","date_gmt":"2013-10-29T03:54:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=8432"},"modified":"2023-06-16T23:08:17","modified_gmt":"2023-06-17T03:08:17","slug":"barnes-noble-278-a-harbison-boulevard-1-jan-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=8432","title":{"rendered":"Barnes & Noble, 278-A Harbison Boulevard: 1 Jan 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"p1230303_tn.jpg\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"p1230304_tn.jpg\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"p1230305_tn.jpg\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"p1230306_tn.jpg\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"p1080452_tn.jpg\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"p1080453_tn.jpg\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"p1080455_tn.jpg\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"p1080456_tn.jpg\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"p1080457_tn.jpg\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"p1080458_tn.jpg\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"p1080459_tn.jpg\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"p1080460_tn.jpg\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Well, if you were reading Columbia Closings<\/i> Saturday, you'll have noticed that commenter wanda scooped The State<\/a> by two days on the closing of the Harbison Barnes & Noble<\/i>.<\/p>\n

I'll have to say that this closing is a bit of a surprise to me as this B&N is still open for their standard hours, and always seemed to me to have a pretty good crowd -- I certainly thought that the Richland Mall store, with its already abbreviated hours and declining location would close first.<\/p>\n

Of course, though they are still open until 10 and 11pm, you can still see the industry changes that are reshaping the retail (and especially book) market. At this point, Barnes & Noble<\/i> is sort of an upscale toy store that sells some books. I have to admit that aside from comic strip collections and reference books, I have mostly used this store for show-rooming and coffee these last two years since I got a Kindle. (And while I *can<\/i>* load BN.com books into the kindle with Calibre<\/a>, realistically I'm going to end up buying the books I showroom from Amazon..).<\/p>\n

Still, over they years, I've bought hundreds if not thousands of dollars worth of books from this store, sipped countless lattes and browsed many magazines -- I'll be sorry to see it go.<\/p>\n

The State<\/i> story implies they will be open through the holidays as apparently the lease, which they have decided not to renew, runs out with the year.<\/p>\n

What does this mean for Richland Mall<\/i>? Well, I hope to be wrong, but if this store can't make it, I fail to see how they can continue much longer there either, especially with the closing of TGI Friday's<\/a>.<\/p>\n

(Hat tip to commenter wanda)<\/p>\n

UPDATE 26 January 2014<\/b> -- Here are some pix from 12 January 2014:<\/p>\n

\"p1110509_tn.jpg\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"p1110510_tn.jpg\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"p1110511_tn.jpg\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"p1110512_tn.jpg\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"p1110513_tn.jpg\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"p1110514_tn.jpg\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"p1110515_tn.jpg\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"p1110516_tn.jpg\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"p1110517_tn.jpg\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"p1110518_tn.jpg\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"p1110519_tn.jpg\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"p1110520_tn.jpg\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"p1110521_tn.jpg\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"p1110522_tn.jpg\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"p1110523_tn.jpg\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"p1110525_tn.jpg\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"p1110526_tn.jpg\"<\/a><\/p>\n

UPDATE 12 February<\/b>: The windows are now unblocked, and you can see the interior again as shown in these pix from 9 February 2014:<\/p>\n

\"p1120161_tn.jpg\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"p1120162_tn.jpg\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"p1120163_tn.jpg\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"p1120164_tn.jpg\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"p1120165_tn.jpg\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"p1120166_tn.jpg\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"p1120167_tn.jpg\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"p1120168_tn.jpg\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"p1120169_tn.jpg\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"p1120170_tn.jpg\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"p1120171_tn.jpg\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"p1120172_tn.jpg\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"p1120183_tn.jpg\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"p1120184_tn.jpg\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"p1120185_tn.jpg\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"p1120186_tn.jpg\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"p1120187_tn.jpg\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"p1120188_tn.jpg\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"p1120189_tn.jpg\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"p1120190_tn.jpg\"<\/a><\/p>\n

UPDATE 17 June 2014<\/b> -- Work on the remodel has started:<\/p>\n

\"p1140541_tn.jpg\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"p1140542_tn.jpg\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"p1140544_tn.jpg\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"p1140545_tn.jpg\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"p1140547_tn.jpg\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"p1140548_tn.jpg\"<\/a><\/p>\n

UPDATE 15 June 2023<\/b>: Adding Map icon.<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well, if you were reading Columbia Closings Saturday, you'll have noticed that commenter wanda scooped The State by two days on the closing of the Harbison Barnes & Noble. I'll have to say that this closing is a bit of a surprise to me as this B&N is still open for their standard hours, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1707],"tags":[1239,26,188,182,1680,4],"class_list":["post-8432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-closing","tag-278-harbison-boulevard","tag-books","tag-harbison","tag-harbison-boulevard","tag-harbison-court","tag-stores"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8432\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}