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Shuttered Borders stores find new uses in South Sound, nationally

Less than a year after Borders Group was forced to close its network of nearly 400 bookstores and liquidate the company, many of those stores are being reborn with other uses. In the South Sound, four of seven former Borders locations ranging from Tacoma to Southcenter, are finding new uses.

JOHN GILLIE; Staff writer
Published: June 6, 2012 at 4:38 p.m. PDT
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Less than a year after Borders Group was forced to close its network of nearly 400 bookstores and liquidate the company, many of those stores are being reborn with other uses. In the South Sound, four of seven former Borders locations ranging from Tacoma to Southcenter, are finding new uses.

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