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Ferrante and his team executed an extensive renovation of the building, working to maintain the historic elements such as artwork and murals while also retrofitting the space for enough retail shelving to triple its inventory and a cafe offering sandwiches, snacks, coffee and cocktails.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Initially, Ferrante planned out the space\u2019s new cafe and book areas before focusing attention on programming music and other events like poetry readings and author engagements, to fully \u201crelease the potential of the stage.\u201d<\/p>\n So far, it\u2019s hosted book clubs, jazz performers, a Grateful Dead cover band and even a lecture by Tibetan monks.<\/p>\n Since opening in November, the booklovers\u2019 paradise has drawn Northeast Ohioans and out-of-towners to the Ohio City shop. Ferrante hopes it can also drive foot traffic to the surrounding neighborhood.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cI see people coming in here and they\u2019re proud. They feel like they\u2019re a part of something,\u201d Ferrante says. \u201cI\u2019m investing in the city because I want to help make it better in my own small way. This is our city, and it\u2019s a part of us.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source clevelandmagazine.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ferrante and his team executed an extensive renovation of the building, working to maintain the historic elements such as artwork and murals while also retrofitting the space for enough retail shelving to triple its inventory and a cafe offering sandwiches, snacks, coffee and cocktails.\u00a0 Initially, Ferrante planned out the space\u2019s new cafe and book areas […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2342551,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2342550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Inside-Visible-Voice-Books-New-Ohio-City-Bookstore-and-Live.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2342550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2342550"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2342550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2342552,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2342550\/revisions\/2342552"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2342551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2342550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2342550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2342550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}READ MORE: Shop Cleveland’s Best Independent Bookstores for Your Next Read<\/em><\/a><\/h3>\n