Interval House<\/a>, which is a domestic abuse treatment center, according to Duggan.<\/p>\nThe organization already has a presence in Long Beach, but its new location under Barnes & Noble is not open yet.<\/p>\n
The original Long Beach Barnes & Noble location first opened nearly 30 years ago in November 1996.<\/p>\n
Now, along with a new store layout, the bookstore also has a new store manager.<\/p>\n
Luisa Guardado stepped into the position about a month ago and said she is excited about the role.<\/p>\n
Guardado said she does not believe the removal of the bottom floor is a huge loss for the store.<\/p>\n
\u201cI do think this store is more designed now to have more face-to-face conversations with customers,\u201d Guardado said. \u201cIt\u2019s [a] more intimate shopping experience because we get to interact with so many more people as opposed to having a bigger floor map.\u201d<\/p>\n
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The section where music and movies were previously downstairs in the old layout, but every section is now on one floor after the Barnes & Noble renovation in the Marina Pacifica Shopping Center in Long Beach, as seen here on Nov. 19. Jason Green | Long Beach Current<\/p>\n
However, some customers are not completely fond of the change.<\/p>\n
\u201cI do miss the uniqueness of the old one,\u201d said Isabel Wagner, who visited the bookstore several times a month before the renovation. \u201cIt had the double stories. It had the escalator. I feel like the individual sections for each genre were very unique and tailored like the kids section was almost like a playground and the manga section was extremely engaging.\u201d<\/p>\n
Wagner said the new layout feels like a generic corporate design and is slightly claustrophobic.<\/p>\n
While Wagner shared her dislike of the new layout, she said the staff has put care into welcoming the community back.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe other one [before the renovation] was more open and more cozy. It\u2019s like for readers; this one\u2019s for shoppers, almost,\u201d attendee Ashleigh Wroten said.<\/p>\n
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Friends Isabel Wagner (left) and Kelsey Pilger attended the Barnes & Noble grand reopening at the Marina Pacifica Shopping Center in Long Beach on Nov.19, and said they miss the old layout. Jason Green | Long Beach Current<\/p>\n
Isabeth Mendoza complimented the new layout.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t know, it feels nice and like more earthy and like clean-ish,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Yoon, the award-winning children\u2019s author of hundreds of books, signed copies of her newest release, \u201cKat & Mouse: I Like Cheese!\u201d while meeting customers at the grand reopening.<\/p>\n
Yoon had only passed through Long Beach before her book signing, as she lives in San Diego.<\/p>\n
\u201cI would like to explore [Long Beach],\u201d she said.\u201d I mean, it\u2019s a beautiful community, of course, and I look forward to returning. I\u2019m hoping to do a story time event here at this particular store.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Award-winning children\u2019s book author and illustrator Salina Yoon met with customers and signed copies of her new book, \u201cKat & Mouse: I Like Cheese!\u201d during the Barnes & Noble grand reopening at the Marina Pacifica Shopping Center on Nov.19<\/p>\n
She said childhood literacy is important because it shapes people and makes them more empathetic.<\/p>\n
\u201c[Shaping children\u2019s] feels amazing because I visit kids, all over the country actually, um, doing school visits and see the impact that I\u2019ve made on kids and also just to be able to engage with them,\u201d Yoon said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Children\u2019s book author and illustrator Salina Yoon cut a ribbon to open the Barnes & Noble during its…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66304,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-66303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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