For Star subscribers: A Tucson couple is combining their love of books with a cafe experience in hopes of building community.
Gerald M. Gay A new bookstore set to open in Oro Valley will also serve as a café, offering coffee, beer and wine to go with your Kingsolver, Grisham and Coates.
"We saw them in other cities," Crispin Jeffrey-Franco said."There is a bookstore café in Phoenix called Changing Hands with a full bar. Tucson has lots of great bookstores and lots of great cafés. For us, there is something about combining the two that makes being in that kind of space really liberating."
When the time came to choose a brick-and-mortar, they opted for Oro Valley, an area where independently owned bookstores were scarce, and where they could attract customers from nearby communities in Catalina, SaddleBrooke, Marana and northwest Tucson. Crispin and Elizabeth's grand plan is to see Stacks Book Club become a place for community in Oro Valley. They hope to sell wares from local makers and artists, and a section of the store will serve as a designated meeting place for book clubs and other local groups.
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