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| Rendering of UConn's downtown Hartford Barnes & Noble | |
A Barnes & Noble bookstore for the University of Connecticut's new downtown Hartford campus will occupy the ground floor of an apartment building on Front Street. The Courant reported that the university "has negotiated a lease for 11,000 square feet in Front Street Lofts for the bookstore, more than a decade after the last one closed in downtown." The board of trustees is expected to approve the 15-year lease Wednesday. Plans call for the bookstore, which will open before the fall semester, to be located across the street from the north side of the $140 million UConn campus complex now under construction.
"It will put people out on the street," said UConn President Susan Herbst. "We don't want to be a tomb where people come in, take classes, get something to eat and leave. This is as much about the revitalization of downtown Hartford."