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A Decade After Borders Shut Down, Here’s What’s in Its Former Locations

The defunct bookstore chain’s spaces are a tricky size to fill..

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It’s been almost exactly ten years since the last Borders bookstore closed, following the company’s February 2011 bankruptcy. Vacating roughly five hundred locations throughout 2011, the erstwhile king of brick-and-mortar book retailing left behind a massive real-estate footprint, millions in unused gift cards, and a lot of memories. (And did you know “Borders” was the last name of two brothers who founded the chain, and not a reference to expanding the borders of your mind?)

It is hard to overstate, yet already difficult to remember, just how popular and big Borders was. More than Barnes & Noble, its similarly sized competitor, Borders was practically synonymous with bookstores during its height in the 1990s and early 2000s. In its heyday it was one of the finest and most successful examples of the category killer or “ medium-box ” store, a now-struggling retail concept that mixes discounting and large selection with curation and attention to quality.

Borders distinguished itself in a number of ways. Most of its stores boasted a café and comfortable interior, and later free wifi, which made them social, multi-use spaces: light breakfast spots, teen hangouts, places to read a story to the kids. The chain also included an unusual number of two-story locations, and many urban or downtown ones as well. Despite its large footprint and rapid expansion, many of its stores were architecturally unique. In a fascinating and detailed post on the chain’s style , architect Marc Lortie notes, “Some Borders stores featured circular turret towers that would jut out of the corner of the façade, physically embodying some of the idyllic romance and innocence of children’s books.”

Borders curated its selection with some attention to local interests , ameliorating some of the concern over the fate of local, idiosyncratic bookstores. And despite the heat it took as a corporate chain, Borders unquestionably increased the quantity and variety of books available to the average consumer at reasonable prices, combining the discounting of Walmart with the browsing ability of the local library. “The big-box store [for books] was a glorious thing while it lasted,” Wharton School professor Dan Raff told NPR in 2011. “To people in many parts of America, they were a kind of Aladdin’s cave.”

But Borders also did damage to itself. One widely noted misstep was the chain’s emphasis on media sales—CDs and DVDs—even as it was becoming increasingly clear that physical media was a dwindling market. (Although if Borders had eked it out, perhaps they’d be selling vinyl today!) Unlike Barnes & Noble, which rolled out its own e-reader in 2009, Borders showed little interest in e-books. And in an early and deeply symbolic misstep, the company outsourced its e-commerce operations in 2001 —to Amazon. It later took back its own web operations in 2008, too late and behind the e-commerce curve.

There were also concerns that the company had overexpanded, a mistake common to a number of defunct retailers. Many Borders locations, intentionally placed near Barnes & Noble stores, faced stiff competition. Many were oversized as well. In a Twitter thread I started about the chain, one former employee recalled being told by his general manager that Borders offered a “third space”—i.e., neither home nor work —“and how that justified huge square footage, multi-levels, and a café even at stores that (unlike ours) didn’t have high foot traffic.” The things that made Borders a pleasant space to lounge also cut into its profitability.

When it went bankrupt, Borders was so big that its failure stranded over $200 million in unused gift cards , triggering a multi-year legal saga that ended in the Supreme Court declining to involve itself in the issue . Who knew a bookstore would help set a precedent that gift-card holders are basically out of luck when a company goes bankrupt?

But along with the memories, the worthless plastic, and a throwback webpage on the Barnes & Noble website welcoming former Borders customers , Borders lives on in the form of its vacated real estate, the afterlife of which is still unfolding. Storefronts in the category-killer segment have proven difficult to fill in recent years—many of the category killers who would otherwise lease them are themselves struggling or defunct , and the spaces tend to be too small for discount department stores and too large for most others. They’re useless to a Walmart or Target, which have fewer competitors than they had even twenty years ago; and they’re too large for things like drugstores, specialty shops, and most small businesses.

For some insight, I asked on Twitter if anybody recalled a local Borders location, and what its status is today. To my surprise, I received nearly 100 responses regarding locations all over the country, representing a considerable share of the chain’s entire portfolio. In addition to those tips, I used Google Maps and its Street View function to look at a number of former Borders sites. The fate of these stores says something about where America’s overbuilt retail is going. Broken down roughly, this is what happened to them.

Of the sizable sample I looked at, only a few have been demolished. About 10 percent have been subdivided into two or more spaces. A small number have become other bookstores—the Books-A-Million chain, for example, took over several Borders locations. A few have become restaurants; the space seems to suit a certain kind of big-scaled eatery . Somewhat larger numbers have become furniture showrooms or medium-sized discount stores like Ross or Home Goods. About 10 percent have become larger clothing or fashion stores, such as H&M, Forever 21, or even Sephora. About 12 percent are currently vacant; some have been other stores in between, such as the now-defunct Pier 1, while a few have been vacant ever since Borders closed. Only about 16 percent are other category killers: everything from Total Wine to Hobby Lobby to Designer Shoe Warehouse.

Perhaps surprisingly, nearly a fifth of the sample I looked at have become small-format or medium-sized supermarkets, from Aldi to Whole Foods to Fresh Market. This may herald a trend towards downsizing in supermarket spaces , which could in turn leave a raft of oversized and vacant former supermarkets to fill.

But even more surprisingly, a little more than a fifth of the former Borders spaces I looked at are no longer retail at all; their uses include studios, gyms, medical clinics or facilities, a daycare, and a coworking space. It’s clear that on the one hand, there are in fact many possibilities for these kinds of retail spaces, but on the other hand, their traditional options are dwindling.

Decades ago, Borders pioneered the new idea of category-specific superstores in the book space, transforming how Americans searched for, bought, and read books. For those who miss the concept, Barnes & Noble remains a surprisingly solid company, likely to hold on for many years to come. But in its own way, Borders remains. First the driver and then the victim of retail innovation, now its old spaces are evolving and giving us a real-time preview of a new era in the American built environment.

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BOOK SIGNINGS: Las Vegans will have two opportunities to meet Agassi and get the book signed. The first is at 7 p.m. Monday at the Encore Theater at Wynn Las Vegas. The second is Nov. 22 at the Costco in Summerlin, 801 S. Pavilion Center Drive. A ticket is needed to attend Monday night’s event at Encore. Tickets are free and are available at any Borders Books in Las Vegas.

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When Andre Agassi decided to tell his life story — all of it — he knew he would reopen old wounds in his soul.

He also knew he was going to inflict new wounds. But if the Las Vegas tennis legend was going to be totally honest, he was going to have to confront his demons one more time.

Agassi’s highs — his eight Grand Slam victories — and his lows, including his use of crystal meth — are laid out in a book appropriately titled “Open.” The 386-page autobiography, which goes on sale Monday (Alfred Knopf Publishing, $28.95), doesn’t hold anything back, with Agassi’s dislike of the sport that made him famous a constant theme throughout.

“It flies in the face of how people perceived me,” Agassi said of exposing his human side. “I had demons I had to fight through.”

Agassi said in a recent phone interview that writing the book was a catharsis for his soul.

“I felt it was important to move forward with my life and tell my story,” he said.

Agassi, who will hold a public book signing tonight at the Encore Theater at Wynn Las Vegas, goes into great detail about his childhood, about being pushed into tennis by his father Mike. About being sent to Nick Bollettieri’s Tennis Academy in Florida when he was 13, which he likened to being sent to prison. About trying to be successful early in his pro career and his frustration at being unable to please those he wanted to please the most.

“People ask me if I had a love-hate relationship with tennis,” Agassi said. “Actually, it was a hate-love relationship. I hated it as a kid. I hated it as a teenager. When I hit rock bottom at age 27, I took control of my life and it was at that point where I could love tennis.”

Agassi reveals his despair over his career, his failed marriage to actress Brooke Shields, his recreational use of crystal meth and how his career was on the brink of ending as he plummeted in the rankings back in 1997.

His drug use has been widely criticized by those in tennis. Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal, the game’s current top two players, have been critical. So has legend Martina Navratilova, who likened Agassi’s crystal meth use to Roger Clemens’ alleged use of steroids.

“Sure, it’s disappointing,” Agassi said of the criticism from his peers. “Those are feelings I’ve had about myself. I was angry at myself.

“But none of it surprises me. People are going to say what they want. It’s just one small window of a large life I’ve had. If people want to focus on that window, I can’t stop them.”

Agassi was paid a whopping $5 million advance on the book. Contrary to rumors, the money is not going to his foundation or his charter school.

“This is not about tying the foundation to book sales,” Agassi said. “This was personal for me and I had way more to lose than to gain in writing this book.

“But I’m so proud of the book. I’m proud of my life — not all parts of my life — but I have no regrets at all. The timing was perfect. It’s the start of a new life for me. If I had waited, it would have been very difficult to do a book.”

Agassi is going through a legal battle with his one-time best friend and manager Perry Rogers. But he is complimentary to Rogers throughout the book. He also is fair to Shields while ebullient in his praise of Gil Reyes, his strength and conditioning coach and confidante.

He talks of his romance with fellow tennis legend Steffi Graf, their subsequent marriage and their two children, Jaden and Jaz.

“You’re not going to cover everything in 400 pages,” he said. “This wasn’t about settling scores or about others. It was about me and my experiences.”

Las Vegans will have two opportunities to meet Agassi and get the book signed. The first is at 7 p.m. Monday; the second is Nov. 22 at the Costco in Summerlin, 801 S. Pavilion Center Drive.

A ticket is needed to attend Monday night's event at Encore. Tickets are free and are available at any Borders Books in Las Vegas.

Agassi is looking forward to tonight’s kickoff signing in his hometown as well as meeting the public in the weeks ahead.

“I’m thrilled to get this book into people’s hands,” he said. “This book has power.

“I think many of the things in the book were painful to revisit. But if I can inspire one person with my story, it’s worth everything I went through.”

Contact reporter Steve Carp at [email protected] or 702-387-2913.

Andre Agassi's brutally honest autobiography, “Open,” goes on sale Monday. The R-J's Steve Carp interviewed the tennis great about the ups and downs in his life and career. CBS' Katie Couric interviews Agassi BOOK SIGNINGS: Las Vegans will have two opportunities to meet Agassi and get the book signed. The first is at 7 p.m. Monday; the second is Nov. 22 at the Costco in Summerlin, 801 S. Pavilion Center Drive. A ticket is needed to attend Monday night's event at Encore. Tickets are free and are available at any Borders Books in Las Vegas.

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You might remember Borders bookstores. They were all over the country in the early 2000s, selling all kinds of books and even multimedia like CDs and movies. Their stores ranged from small outlets in shopping malls to huge buildings packed full of books. In 2003, according to NPR , there were more than 1,200 of the stores nationwide. But by 2012, the chain had liquidated and closed all of its locations.

Bookstores like Barnes & Noble still hold ground in the bookselling market, and the oldest bookstore in America is still standing after more than 150 years. Clearly, people are still reading, and they're going to bookstores to discover new favorites. Borders, a familiar sight and staple storefront for more than four decades, faced plenty of problems in its final years. But what was the final straw for the bookselling giant? Was it a shift to online sales and e-readers, or something else?

The store didn't have great online sale strategies

When Borders first entered the scene, there wasn't really an online marketplace. It made its name by being a big box store where everyone could find something they wanted, according to NPR . But when the internet came around, customers found other ways to get their reading fix.

Other retailers created websites to help move products along. But Borders opted to go a different route. The store actually opted to use Amazon to sell its online products, according to Time , instead of creating its own online marketplace. Time reports that the decision meant Borders handed over control over its online presence and that the lack of cohesive branding likely hurt the store in the long run.

Borders did have its own website for a while. Surprisingly, it was actually hurting the company, and according to Lit Reactor , that website cost the company $20 million to maintain even before it started working with Amazon. That's not exactly a recipe for success.

E-readers and digital books were more popular

The creation of the internet marketplace led to another trend that hurt Borders' prospects. On top of buying physical books online, readers started to shift to electronic books (via Time ). Over the early 2000s, e-books outpaced the sale of physical books, according to Time.

Other outlets saw the change coming and adapted. Barnes & Noble created its Nook e-reader to compete with Amazon's marketplace, according to Time, but Borders never created its own e-reader. In an online essay about the bookstore's closure, former Borders Director of Merchandise Planning and Analysis Mark Evans in part blamed the slow adaptation to e-books.

"[Borders] also dropped the ball on e-books," Evans wrote. "But by the time this became an issue they were just trying to figure out how to keep the whole house from burning down around them, so I find it more understandable."

Without a place to direct people interested in e-books, Borders missed out on a market that could have brought in more sales.

It invested too much in selling other media

Borders might have started out as just a bookstore, but it didn't stay that way. The stores later shifted to selling DVDs and CDs and opted to heavily focus on that market in the 1990s, according to Time . But ultimately, it wasn't as great a success as business executives might have hoped for. The iPod and other MP3 players came through shortly after the shift, and it drew customers away from the physical media Borders was selling (via Time).

According to Lit Reactor , Borders filled almost half of its retail space with CDs. That left them with a lot of empty or underutilized space later on when CDs fell out of fashion, including warehouse space. According to Evans, it took a lot of resources to fill the empty space and the loss of revenue that came around when CDs fell out of fashion.

Their troubles with real estate strategy

Another issue that pops up during a Borders post-mortem is somewhat  easier to understand. The hypothesis is that Borders went on a commercial retail buying spree and bought up too many storefronts — and simply didn't have enough money to support them. According to Time , a vast majority of its stores were also in close proximity to other booksellers like Barnes & Noble. So on top of the shift to online sales and e-books, there were too many physical bookstores (both other stores in the chain and competitors) around wherever a Borders was operating.

According to NPR , Borders bought up plenty of real estate in the 1990s when the business was doing well. It might have been that they couldn't sustain that level of expense , and eventually it caught up with them. That theory is backed up by former employee Mark Evans , too according to NPR . He says they didn't do as well with relocating stores to better locations, and their storefronts couldn't compete with other stores in the area. The company was also trying to recover from massive debt, according to Time, even before the market crash in 2008.

The workplace atmosphere might have played a part

The issues with online sales and real estate were all pretty visible from the outside. But there's also some commentary on the differences in workplace atmosphere between Borders and other retailers. Barnes & Noble, for example, gave its employees an opportunity to try other things. According to Lit Reactor , some were able to work as baristas or fill other roles in addition to cashier or bookseller duty. And a different seller, Half Price Books, also offered better policies for workers, including paid hour-long lunches, full benefits, and better wages. Those factors probably didn't lead directly to Borders' closure, but they didn't help them, either.

Borders closed its doors for a variety of reasons. Some of those were due to management, while others were the result of a changing market. But the bookselling industry is still going strong. From at least some analyses , Borders' disappearance even allowed independent booksellers to expand and flourish in different parts of the country. But for many, the loss of the traditional big-box storefronts is still a sore subject.

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I go to Barnes and Noble religiously, the store is always clean and the selection is always diverse. I love that the Cafe technically is not considered to be part of Starbucks. I love that members receive 10% Off and free upgrades on drinks and discounts on food and loyalty points for cash off books. The service is always nice and they are always willing to look up books and go find it for you. They are also quick to give recommendations and some of their recommendations were really good! I wish that they expand the Horror section and expanded it closer the thrillers. But always have fun and can find a book for less than $15! Wish they ran their online deals in store!

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I was desperate to find a stuffed moose, as Amazon had let me down and lost my order...I called over to this B&N and spoke with Marian. The website showed that they did have the stuffed moose in store but I was calling just to be sure. Marian went out of her way to get this out of the holiday backstock for me and then call and let me know she had found it. Thank you so much for the excellent customer service!! Definitely a top notch employee!!

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I love going into this Barnes & Noble location the best of the 3 in the valley. It lacks some of the ambience and inventory of other locations, but it has my heart. I have found so many beloved books at this location and I have spent many hours in the cafe at book clubs. I used to run my own book club there and I only have fond memories of those times. The people are always kind, helpful, and accessible. I highly recommend this location, but they are all good!

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The perfect way to end a day. Browsing the shelves for a book to dive into. I love checking out the newest books and may e some old ones that I haven't read yet. The staff is always willing to give advice. I was in need of a coloring book as well and found a Harry Potter glow in the dark coloring book for myself.

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