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Aqua Books goes back to its roots

Kelly Hughes, owner of Aqua Books, is moving the bookstore back to the Exchange District after five years downtown.

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Kelly Hughes, owner of Aqua Books, is moving the bookstore back to the Exchange District after five years downtown.

Aqua Books will be moving back to the Exchange District in April at a new location that will feature a theatre, bar and workshop space.

"We’re moving back to the city’s artists village that nurtured us for so long," said bookstore owner Kelly Hughes. "Finding a wonderful location a mere block up from where we spent five years at 89 Princess feels like a real homecoming."

Aqua’s new location will be 123 Princess St.

"Transitioning from this big building we’ve been in, into a wonderful but smaller space is really making us be creative," Hughes said.

Hughes said they will be working over the next two months with building owner Pat Hitchcock to take the best of their former location at 274 Garry St. to create "something the same, only different."

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