It’s no mystery that Barnes & Noble is finding success in the D.C. region. The bookseller has been busy opening stores around the area this year.
One new location took over the former Woodies building in Northwest D.C. in January. Then it reopened a renovated store in the Clarendon neighborhood of Arlington, Virginia, in May. And just this week, a second store opened in Alexandria, Virginia, in the city’s west end.
The reason for the focus on the D.C. area: “It’s obviously a very literate, well-educated population,” Barnes & Noble CEO James Daunt said…