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Street game changer? #AmazonBooks #SouthportCorridor (at Mystic Celt)

Confirmed from @dnainfochi – @amazon Books is coming to the @southportcorridorchicago 📚 (at Mystic Celt)
DNA Info Chicago has confirmed that Amazon Books is indeed coming to the Southport Corridor after we broke the news to you first from our blog post yesterday:
“Amazon will open a brick-and-mortar bookstore on the Southport Corridor next year. The online megastore confirmed that it will open an Amazon Books location on Southport Avenue in 2017, two years after its first physical store opened in Seattle.”
From The Chicago Tribune: Continue reading “Confirmed: Amazon Books is coming to Chicago’s Southport Corridor”
Mystic Celt has been closed since the New Year, and Amazon.com’s brick and mortar bookstore is rumored to be coming to 3443 N. Southport Avenue. Amazon currently has a store in Seattle, and is opening other outlets soon in San Diego, California and Portland, Oregon. Rumors are swirling on New York’s Hudson Yards as well.
Amazon plans on opening hundreds of bookstores in the coming years.
A description of what Amazon Books is from Amazon.com’s website:
Continue reading “Amazon Books rumored to be coming to Southport’s former Mystic Celt’s space”
From earlier this year, the owner of Mystic Celt had sold the building to L3 Capital, and it has been marketed for lease over the past several months. It has now been confirmed that Mystic\’s last day of business on Southport will be January 3, 2016. Look for new retail and/or food establishments coming over the next several months. The property is currently being marketed for up to three separate store-fronts.
You can see the full listing here from Cushman & Wakefield.
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| Mystic Celt\’s last holiday season on Chicago’s Southport Corridor. |
Continue reading “Mystic Celt’s Last Day of Business on Southport is January 3, 2016”