A big welcome and congratulations to Barnes and Noble for their grand opening and ribbon cutting at Shadow Lake Towne Center in Papillion!
Inside the store:
Beautiful and colorful arrangment of books and flowers greet you, as you enter the bookstore
Cafe and children’s section meet at an angle with a sign with special offer to Premium Members for a free hot or iced coffe or tea for the grand opening special
Patrons wait in line at register of the cafe
Seating areas for the cafe
First glimpse of the cafe and the seating as you enter from the right of the store
Outside the store, over a hundred excited future patrons eagerly await Barnes and Noble’s Grand Opening in Papillion:
People lined up around and past the store, so eager to finally have the bookstore and cafe!
The ribbon cutting:
Store Manager, Rob Herbel, makes opening comments before the ribbon cutting outside the bookstore. Local author Lynn Painter carries the scissors to the ribbon outstreched in front of the door.
Lynn Painter opens the scissors to cut ribbon
Lynn Painter begins to cut the ribbon
Ribbon is cut and falls while people applaud
Barnes & Noble
7949 Towne Center Pkwy,
Papillion, NE 68046
(Previously was Best Buy and is next to PetSmart)
Please come back later for our Papillion interviews with Rob Herpel (Store Manager) and Jaimie Geoffroy (Regional Cafe Operations Manager).
