UD Bookstore to relocate to Main Street

The University Bookstore will move to a new location on Main Street by 2011, officials announced this week.

University spokesman John Brennan said the university has purchased a building at 83 E. Main Street, formally owned by the Christiana School District, and plans to relocate the bookstore at Perkins Student Center to the newly acquired property, which will also include office space for university departments. 

The first floor of the University Bookstore in Perkins, which sells mostly university memorabilia, is not expected to change. Brennan said he is not yet sure what will replace the basement of the bookstore.

The other two major bookstores in Newark, Liebermans Bookstore and Delaware Book Exchange, are also located on Main Street. 

Brennan said having the three bookstores on Main Street is a good way to serve the university community.

“It gives the university a presence on Main Street, and certainly Main Street is an important part of what the university is all about,” he said.

The university plans to keep the facade of the building, located across the street from Caffe Gelato, that once held offices for the Christiana School District.

“It’s a historical place on Main Street, so we want to keep a façade that has that kind of background,” Brennan said.

Junior Andrew Curtin said the move will force students living on East Campus to walk over to Main Street to buy books.

“It’ll probably be a little bit of an inconvenience for students on East Campus, but Main Street is pretty well traveled so it seems like a decent choice for the university,” Curtin said.

Aimee Grady, a cashier at Delaware Book Exchange, said she heard about the potential move from her manager, but was not too concerned.

“The university’s prices are usually a little bit more expensive than ours, so I don’t think it’s going to be detrimental to the store in any way,” she said.  “I just kind of shrugged it off.”

There is no expected start date for construction at this point, Brennan said. The expected completion date for construction is 2011.

Read more about the relocation of the University Bookstore in Tuesday's issue of The Review.

2 comments

yah bro

Sun Sep 27 2009 16:04

It'll most likely be more student center oriented stuff. Think of what is already in Perkins and Trabant.... more of that.

-J

Sat Sep 26 2009 02:17

What will fill the space of the bookstore that's in Perkins now?

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