Does this mean that we get a brewpub instead?
Sad news for Monrovia from the Pasadena Star News:
City officials and Vroman’s representatives had been having discussions about the bookstore’s possible expansion into Monrovia for months and had been close to an agreement, according to the city’s website.
“…While we were very close to reaching an agreement to purchase the newly renovated building at 601 S. Myrtle Avenue, the more recent economic conditions and variances have caused our Board of Directors to adopt a more conservative approach regarding expansion at this time,” Vroman’s president Joel Sheldon said in a statement.
The bookstore has not ruled out the possibility of coming to Monrovia in the future.
Which is too bad. A bookstore is the only thing that Olde Towne Monrovia really lacks.
On the up side: maybe this means the rumors about the old Crown City Brewery being the new tenant are true. That would be cool.
November 10th, 2008 at 10:57 pm
I hadn’t realized that the Crown City Brewery thing was only rumor. What you really need is an awesome used bookstore because there are seriously way too few of those in the LA area (or my standards for awesome are way too high, having been spoiled by being walking distance from like a dozen bookstores when I was in Madison).