Another storefront has “popped up” Downtown as a part of Project Pop Up: Downtown created by the Pittsburgh Downtown Partnership.  “I always thought it would be a good idea to have a store Downtown, but this seemed like a really good opportunity,” Bob Ziller said Friday morning at the store.Ziller, of Wilkinsburg, and Laura McLaughlin, of O’ Hara Township, owners of Awesome Books in Garfield, decided to participate in the project which gave them a grant to help renovate a vacant store.The result was a second Awesome Books at 929 Liberty Ave. Downtown. After renovations, the new bookstore officially opened Jan. 25 in a building that had been empty for over a decade.”People are really happy about it. People who work Downtown like coming by for lunch or after work,” Ziller said.Ziller also said that the people in Downtown have not had a bookstore to enjoy in five or six years since the local Barnes & Noble closed.Awesome Books offers a large variety of new and used books for very inexpensive prices. The store also has a shelf that holds titles from local authors. The store currently has 3,000 books and Ziller plans to have 10,000 by the time the shelves are stocked.According to Ziller, 90 percent of the books are $10 or less. There is a whole bookshelf full of books for less than $3.Dan Kless, 20, a student from Arcadia University in Glenside, Pa., was in Pittsburgh on Friday for the Jubilee Conference. He found Awesome Books while he had some extra time in the city. “They definitely have a lot of different categories of books and [the books] seem to be pretty well priced from what I’ve seen,” Kless said.Along with the cheap prices compared to college bookstores, Ziller believes university students will be interested in the store because of its selection.”The selection here is for educated people. We don’t have a bookshelf with harlequin romances or anything,” Ziller said. “It’s not your typical stuff that you’ll find at a grocery store.”McLaughlin is proud of the comfortable setting both stores offer customers. She offers tea to customers while they are shopping and accommodates them as much as possible.”We take in people’s opinions and try to get in what they want,” McLaughlin said Friday evening during a phone interview.Awesome Books is always open to donations of second-hand books. The store will actually set out great books that are slightly damaged for free.Any books the store does not use are donated to local businesses and organizations such as Millvale Community Library, the Thomas Merton Center East End Community Thrift, and Book ‘Em, which gives books to prisoners.McLaughlin and Ziller both look forward to the future of their new store.Ziller hopes to find a coffee house to partner with, which would be placed in the back half of the store. He is also searching for a full-time manager for the Downtown store.The store is open until midnight Fridays and Saturdays, so Ziller thinks it would be fun to have a regular reading series to accommodate the late hours.”We’re open to any ideas, so send them our way,” Ziller said.McLaughlin is excited to meet new people and to have readings with local and national authors.”It can just be wide open with the types of events we can have here,” McLaughlin said.Awesome Books is hosting its next event Feb. 25 at 7 p.m. The event will feature an out-of-state author, Tess Almendarez Lojacono and her debut novel, “Milagros.”