New event space available in South Main Book Company

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Alissa Redmond, owwer of the bookstore, and Hazelnut stand downstairs within the newly accomplished house. — Karen Kistler

The downstairs space within the bookstore is reworked and prepared for reserving occasions. — Karen Kistler

Karen Kistler

karen.kistler@salisburypost.com

SALISBURY— South Important Ebook Firm, 110 S. Important St., Salisbury, has a brand new house for the neighborhood to both use as a spot to loosen up or a spot to lease.

The reworking of the house, which is positioned within the downstairs space of the bookstore, was accomplished round Could 13, stated Alissa Redmond, proprietor of the shop.

She famous that she had obtained a grant two years in the past.

“So it’s been a piece in progress for some time,” she stated, including that they took care of some issues upstairs after which “sort of migrated down as we might.”

The realm is “an idea, there’s nothing on the market down there,” she stated, including that individuals can go downstairs when the enterprise is open and sit and skim or work in the event that they wish to.

Now, it’s simply an additional house, she stated; nonetheless, “ultimately it should have extra of a lounge really feel to it so that individuals can go down there with espresso or one thing and simply hang around and skim.”

The house can be used for occasions reminiscent of a party or some sort of reception, and for these wanting to make use of it for these forms of occasions, Redmond stated they’ve the whole lot that they would want and they’re open for bookings.

These wishing to be taught extra data or to guide the world, can name the guide retailer at 704-630-9788.

One other space downstairs is out there for lease, Redmond stated for anybody who’s a therapeutic massage therapist or somebody within the self-care subject of some type.

Downstairs has been used for a number of occasions already, Redmond stated, together with a joint guide signing for Pleasure Calloway and Katherine Scott Crawford and an upcoming guide signing for Kristy Woodson Harvey’s latest launch, “Seaside Home Guidelines” will happen Could 27 at 5:30 p.m. She stated that for these unable to go downstairs for this occasion, there could be lodging on the bottom ground as nicely.

And the world was put to make use of throughout the Cheerwine Competition offering house for folks to “run round as a result of we have been fairly busy.”  

Redmond stated she had fairly a number of targets for the downstairs space.

As of proper now, she stated “it’s only a clear, purposeful, usable house. We’ve had some weddings and birthday events and totally different sorts of occasions already. That provides us one other degree to make use of.”

In time, she famous she want to have retail down there, “however we wish to have an elevator first as a result of I need it to be accessible for everybody.”

Anticipating that there will likely be slower foot visitors when the streetscape mission is going down, Redmond stated she thinks “that’s the time after I want to put in an elevator that goes to each ground within the constructing so then we will actually use that downstairs for gross sales.”

She doesn’t anticipate that the world will likely be “an extension of the bookstore as a lot as bringing in some new ideas,” she stated.

Having a pop up Dewey’s bakery at Christmas a number of years in the past within the house was profitable, Redmond stated. 

Whereas it was a nonprofit they usually didn’t cost something for the house, she stated it was good to have further foot visitors and it was “one of many issues that sort of planted the thought in my head that I actually wished to work on that house and make it usable.”

Redmond expressed because of those that have supported her, noting that she has had the shop for 5 years and it retains rising and is extra profitable every year.

So she stated, because of “everybody for his or her help and hopefully this may simply be extra of a continuation of us being a profitable enterprise in downtown Salisbury.”