Funny enough that one in downtown Santa Monica just shut down after being open for twenty-something years.

Source:

I work/live near there and always went.

Also http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2018/01/barnes_noble_close...

Oh, wow! I guess even busy they still couldn’t pay the rent.

you mean the one in bellevue near the new amazon building in bellevue across the lake from amazon hq1? I'm not sure that's the best store to example off of.

The long time one in downtown, not sure if there is an Amazon building downtown. They closed the attached (real) Starbucks and now it lacks a cafe, even though the Starbucks was always busy the store was still kind of empty.

Yeah that's the one I'm thinking of. There are 2 starbucks one block up the hill to the transit center too, so basically 3 on that square block. It was too far down the hill for me to go to when I worked there.

Bellevue is saturated with starbucks, but very few that were open until 10PM like the one in B&N was (actually, only the Lodge and the original Bellevue store are open late). It was the place for students to hang out studying, but now...there really isn't much to replace it.

I always went to rock bottom and awkwardly worked at the bar.