Local artist Filipe Bergson wants to sell enough t-shirts to bring back Haslam’s Bookstore in St. Petersburg. The iconic indie bookstore closed its doors back in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic, and since then the 30,000-square-foot building has sat vacant at 2025 Central Ave.—along with the nearly 300,000 new and used books still sitting inside. […]
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St. Pete man wants to buy long-shuttered Haslam’s bookstore, and he’s selling 500,000 t-shirts to do it
‘I have this gut feeling that they are looking for a ‘Mr. Right’ to re-open the bookstore.’