Barnes & Noble, which once had three locations in Fort Worth — four if you count the university-focused Texas Christian University location — will soon have three again.
The New York-based bookstore chain recently filed a plan with the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation to add a location at Presidio Town Crossing, 2329 Porter Creek Drive in the AllianceTexas development.
According to the filing, the bookstore will retrofit an existing 12,000-square-foot retail space. The project is set to begin June 1 and be complete by the end of November.
That means the bookstore will likely open around the same time as the 20,000-square-foot location that Barnes & Noble plans for the former Office Depot location at Montgomery Plaza. That work is set to be complete by October.
No opening date has been set for either location.
The bookstore giant now has one location on South Hulen Street, a recently opened one in Burleson and plans for a store in Mansfield in the Shops at Broad development.
It’s part of a growth trend for both independent and chain bookstores, said Rob Franks, a retail analyst at JLL.
Barnes & Noble is in the midst of a major expansion, he said. The company’s push is fueled by strong sales in existing locations and a “local bookstore” strategy that gives more autonomy to individual store managers, Franks said.
In 2024, Barnes & Noble opened locations in Allen, Flower Mound and Richardson. The company expects to open more than 60 new bookstores nationally in 2026, Franks said.
Light industrial for AllianceTexas
Dallas-based commercial real estate firms Holley Development Co. and Indco Partners have jointly acquired 16 acres fronting Interstate 35W in the AllianceTexas submarket of Fort Worth. The property, referred to by Holley as Signature 35, is south of SH 114.
The site will be developed into a 111,923-square-foot light industrial facility that includes climate-controlled storage and a 5-acre outside storage yard.
JLL’s capital markets arranged construction financing through Simmons Bank and an equity investment from an undisclosed family business to capitalize on the new development.
Crews broke ground on the facility April 20. Completion is expected in the first quarter of 2027.
Dallas-based Stream Realty Partners will handle leasing and property management.
U-Haul goes big with Texas assist
If the U-Haul truck you see in your rearview mirror looks a little larger than usual, you could be seeing the moving company’s latest — and largest — truck, the Easy Mover.
The U-Haul Easy Mover truck has a 29-foot-long cargo space and arrives in time for the summer moving season. Almost half of all residential relocations occur between Memorial Day and Labor Day weekends, according to a U-Haul news release.
The Easy Mover has a North Texas connection. The new vehicle is the first collaboration between U-Haul and Denton-based truck builder Peterbilt.
Peterbilt designed and built the trucks in Denton, then U-Haul added the truck boxes for the completed product at its plants in Pomona, California, and Warrington, Pennsylvania, where the new trucks will begin their initial use, according to U-Haul.
The cargo area in the Easy Mover, at 2,057 cubic feet, is able to accommodate the household goods of most four- to six-bedroom homes, according to U-Haul.
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