A: Where is Uni-President Department Store’s new Dream Plaza?
B: The shopping mall is at the original site of Eslite Bookstore’s former 24-hour Xinyi branch.
A: Oh, I remember that. Uni-President Group didn’t renew the lease when it expired so it could turn the building into a mall.
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B: To continue the literary atmosphere, the Dream Plaza houses the first physical store of Book.com Co. — with a collection of over 30,000 books.
A: Great. So book lovers can still visit there as usual.
A: 新開幕的統一時代百貨Dream Plaza在哪裡啊？
B: 就是之前24小時營業的誠品信義書店那一棟。
A: 我想起來了，後來租約到期統一集團不續租誠品，把大樓收回自己開百貨。
B: 為了延續書香，Dream Plaza還開設博客來首間實體店，據說藏書超過3萬冊！
A: 太棒了，愛書人又有好去處啦。
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