Barnes & Noble plans to open one of its smallest stores in years at Edens' Mosaic District, a retail and restaurant project in the Merrifield section of Fairfax, Va., according to the Washington Business Journal, which cited "a contractor bid site."
The new B&N, scheduled to open in June, will be just 8,630 square feet. The company had said during its first-quarter results conference call in September that its newest prototype stores are in the range of 10,000 to 14,000 square feet, and some might be as small as 8,000 to 10,000 square feet.