Unity park opening date8/1/2023 Hand and Stone relocates at The Avenue East CobbĮvery Sunday we round up the week’s top headlines and preview the upcoming week in the East Cobb News Digest.LM Frame and Gallery holds ribbon-cutting, art exhibit TikTok video from Jessoart (jessoart): 'Unity Park in Greenville, South Carolina.The Avenue East Cobb update: Summer events, redevelopment.East Cobb resident named to Forbes wealth advisors list.Activate IV and Cryotherapy opens at Providence Square.East Cobb medical assistant training center offering scholarships.There’s a Half Price Books location on Johnson Ferry Road in the Woodlawn Commons Shopping Center. Several independent bookstores are close by in East Cobb, including Bookmiser on Roswell Road near Robinson Road East and the Book Exchange on Canton Road. They’re trying to disguise their profit-driven corporate decisions behind pretty warm-lit curtains.” “They are putting on the costume and language of a pretty neighborhood independent bookstore, but their inner mechanics are still all big-box chain corporation. While Barnes and Noble is trying to incorporate the spirit of an independent bookstore, some critics aren’t buying the new pitch: The 60-acre Unity Park is a transformational public-private project on the west side of Greenville that will knit together historic downtown neighborhoods. “One thing we’re hoping to get measured by is bringing books to communities and providing careers for booksellers.” More than 12 million in private money has been raised for construction of the first phase of the park, scheduled to open in late spring 2022. “We’re spending real money and opening many more stores,” he told Barron’s magazine in a recent interview. The grand opening for Unity Park, including the playgrounds and splashpad, is scheduled for Thursday, May 19. It’s part of a concept of “smaller” stores and a gradual overhaul of the chain to offer more “differentiated” locations according to regional and local interests under CEO James Daunt, who’s done that with the Waterstones chain in his native United Kingdom. When we went by earlier this week, we took the above photo, which is relatively unchanged in recent weeks.īarnes and Noble is converting 15,0000 square feet of the former Bath Bed and Beyond space into a traditional-style bookstore with a cafe and featuring more local titles curated by managers. What was once Spring 2022, now has an official date The grand opening of Unity Park (including the playgrounds and splashpad) will be Thursday, May. Each shelter includes two picnic tables and can be rented by the full- or half-day. Unity Park, Greenville’s newest and most ambitious open-space project, is aiming for an opening late spring 2022, according to Beth Brotherton, director of communications and neighborhood relations for the city of Greenville. We will keep you posted on an opening date.” The rentable shelters are the one closest to Hudson Street and the one closest to the Prisma Health Welcome Center. A company spokesperson said in response to our message only that “renovations are moving along nicely, and we are targeting a mid-October opening.
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