Amazon is coming to Colorado with a physical bookstore
More than two years after Amazon opened its first physical bookstore, Colorado is getting one of its own.
“We are excited to be bringing Amazon Books to Park Meadows in Lone Tree and we are currently hiring store managers and associates,” Alexandra Woodworth, Amazon Books PR manager, said in an email this week.
She did not answer questions about when, where in the mall nor whether more stores are on the way for the metro Denver area. “Stay tuned,” she said.
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Park Meadows officials did not respond to requests for comment.
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Metro Denver’s retail scene is struggling. Could walkaround alcohol sales lure more shoppers?
Ryan Dorris sat on a bench just outside a gymnastics studio at a high-end Aurora retail complex this week and watched as his daughter and other children tumbled and flipped their way through routines. Beside him were two of his other kids, one devouring an ice cream cone.
This family scene, in a mall-like shopping center, could be just about anywhere in Colorado — except for the cup of wheat beer Dorris held in his hand and a state law that makes it possible.
“It allows you to blend an adult experience with having children,” the father of three said of Stanley Marketplace’s “common consumption” rule. “My daughter can do gymnastics, my son can have an ice cream and I can have an adult beverage.”
Developers and local governments along the Front Range also see the appeal in a concept that allows adults to carry around to-go alcoholic drinks in an eclectic, food and drink-centered environment: a retail landscape that can’t be easily overtaken by the growing reach of Amazon and other onl..
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