{"id":1741,"date":"2013-06-11T11:00:36","date_gmt":"2013-06-11T16:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/monte\/?p=1741"},"modified":"2013-08-16T09:52:29","modified_gmt":"2013-08-16T14:52:29","slug":"give-me-books-or-euthanize-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/monte\/2013\/06\/11\/give-me-books-or-euthanize-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Give Me Books or Euthanize Me!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Along with Powell’s and Strand, the Book House, with 130,000 volumes, is nationally acclaimed as one of America’s premier used academic bookstores. Join me in the battle to save the BOOK HOUSE IN DINKYTOWN!!! \u201cThe Book House is an idea that\u2019s bigger than [the] Opus project,\u201d Bute said.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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Book House is relocating, but not done fighting<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n

The 37-year-old store will move to a smaller location in Dinkytown.<\/p>\n

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The Book House stock manager Kevin Sell moves boxes that will be brought to the store’s new locations on May 26, 2013 in Dinkytown. ByBridget Bennett<\/a><\/div>\n
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By <\/span>Meghan Holden<\/a><\/div>\n
June 05, 2013<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

The Book House is relocating to a new home just around the corner, but it\u2019s not done fighting for Dinkytown.<\/p>\n

Its large collection of used and rare books will be moving to a small space above Varsity Bike and Transit in Dinkydale Mall. Owner Kristen Eide-Tollefson said they plan to open by mid-July.<\/p>\n

Book House employee Matt Hawbaker said the compact space will be about one-third the size of the current store.<\/p>\n

The new store will take over the space that the Dinkytown Antiquarian Books bookstore once occupied.<\/p>\n

Because of the tighter space, the Dinkydale Mall location will be a more curated collection of books, and they\u2019ll be focusing on more online sales, Hawbaker said.<\/p>\n

Employee Kevin Sell said they previously considered moving to Prospect Park but decided to stay nearby because \u201cthey are an essential part of Dinkytown.\u201d<\/p>\n

Eide-Tollefson said the store needs to be out of its current 14th Avenue location by the end of June. The Opus Group plans to break ground on a 140-unit apartment building there in August.<\/p>\n

Monte Bute \u2014 who\u2019s been coming to the Book House once a week since the first day they opened in 1976 \u2014 said he\u2019ll continue going to the new location, but he\u2019s sad about the move.<\/p>\n

\u201cBook House is one of the anchors of Dinkytown,\u201d Bute said. \u201cWhat you find here is serendipity.\u201d<\/p>\n

The new location will allow the Book House to have a more selective stock, Eide-Tollefson said. But the new space may not be permanent.<\/p>\n

Hawbaker said the Book House hopes to move back into a larger place in the future, but it seems unlikely if Fifth Street is rezoned for new construction, as Opus has proposed.<\/p>\n

Developers open spaces in Dinkytown for their offices, he said, and small-business owners can\u2019t afford the higher prices.<\/p>\n

Although Book House employees said they\u2019re happy the store will stay in Dinkytown, they\u2019ll still be fighting against the development of the Opus project.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis deal is not done,\u201d Hawbaker said.<\/p>\n

Community group Save Dinkytown\u2019s petition for an environmental assessment of the Opus apartment project will be addressed at the zoning and planning committee\u2019s June 6 meeting. The city of Minneapolis denied the application for an assessment, saying the group didn\u2019t provide enough evidence that the project would negatively impact the environment.<\/p>\n

There won\u2019t be a public hearing, but a Save Dinkytown representative will have an opportunity to address the committee, according to the meeting agenda online.<\/p>\n

Bute said these wars with developers aren\u2019t new and Opus doesn\u2019t understand the culture of Dinkytown.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Book House is an idea that\u2019s bigger than [the] Opus project,\u201d Bute said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Along with Powell’s and Strand, the Book House, with 130,000 volumes, is nationally acclaimed as one of America’s premier used academic bookstores. Join me in the battle to save the BOOK HOUSE IN DINKYTOWN!!! \u201cThe Book House is an idea that\u2019s bigger than [the] Opus project,\u201d Bute said. Book House is relocating, but not done […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[46,3370],"class_list":["post-1741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-activism","tag-reading"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/monte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/monte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/monte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/monte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/monte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1741"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/monte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1748,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/monte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1741\/revisions\/1748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/monte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/monte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/monte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}