Barnes & Noble is opening a new store in Lakeland next week, the second local shop to open in the region in a month and a week following the 50th its opened this year.
The bookseller’s new 13,000-square-foot Lakeland location is in a former Party City space in the Merchants Walk shopping center at 3615 S Florida Ave.
The grand opening is set for 9 a.m. on Nov. 19.
Next week’s opening comes less than a month after the chain opened a new 20,000-square-foot store in Pinellas County’s Palm Harbor. That location opened Oct. 29 at the Highland Lakes Plaza at 33591 U.S. Highway 19 N…