Exactly 20 years after its opening, the bookstore has to include bookmarks in the body of a road in head of hair. The reason is that The building is being renovated luxury, and the Rent will increase immeasurably.
hair – Exactly 20 years after its opening, have to close the book store bookmarks in the body of the road. “We need the walk-in customers, therefore a good location, but a rent increase of 70 percent can I lift after the renovation, never,” says a frustrated owner Rudolf Forster.
The house of the year 1974 since some time, the Residential Munich GmbH, based in Pöcking on lake Starnberg. Because for decades nothing has been renovated, the power fails regularly, always water in the business premises, the Windows are not isolated and in the underground garage heavy steel beam out in the open, rusting and warped, is a renovation urgently necessary. The is now also train to train. Currently, the neighbor is rebuilt business, the bookstore, a travel Agency, from August it will go in the bookmarks. After the renovation, Forster 70 per cent more rent to pay, he can’t afford. Therefore, at the end of July, after exactly 20 years.
For his range, he needs at least 100 square meters of retail space
“The feedback from our customers are amazing, so positive,” says Forster, grateful, “but, unfortunately, all the bring you slogans and tips nothing.” He needed to be wide range of at least 100 square meters of retail space. “I can’t go in a Container, because any atmosphere to Browse and such a large Container is not missing, there is,” says Forster.
Also, the efforts of the municipality of hair, he knows how to appreciate, already Gabriele Müller (SPD), has for a continued existence, and her successor, Andreas Bukowski (CSU) is less active, has repeatedly sought direct contact to Forster. “I have the group “Save our bookmarks” on Facebook founded, which already has 268 members. Only because of the encouraging comments and offers of help, as well as to the many Mails reach us in the town hall, we see the importance of the bookstore bookmark in hair enjoys,“ says Bukowski. A place like the hair should have a bookstore, as a lot of readers that only too well.
a Lot of support from the citizens
this Facebook group is full of supporters and tips: move in a Container on the circus Lawn, as a tenant in the antique shop in Church street or in the basement of the municipal library are just a few. The community should financially help directly, all schools and kindergartens in the town would also like to order the citizens in the only bookstore in the municipality, suggest others.
“This is all meant to be nice, but we can’t. under the library, because there is no storefront, since we are away We can not in another street, not even in the Old Post, because we need in addition to the regular customers, the walk-in customers urgently,“ says Rudolf Forster. Mayor Bukowski regrets that the municipality is not able to provide loading surface in the body street. “Even if a bookstore is more than culture is perceived, because as a commercial unit – carry the entrepreneurial risk of the bookseller. We as a community can subsidize under competition law, no store rent.“
the end of July is final
So you must accept it, unfortunately, that at the end of July deadline. A fresh start in a new city will start Forster. “It costs a lot of money and energy. For me only the labor office, therefore, remains but with 55 this is also a very hard course, if the open ever again,“ says Forster sarcastically. Now he is planning for the last week of July for a sell-off, “because that’s what I don’t sell, I have to throw it away.”
