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Last month, Phoenix Coffee closed its last downtown café, a location that had been in business since 2007. At the time of the announcement, the local coffee roaster teased that a new downtown home was already in the works.
“We had irons in a couple fires,” says general manager Toby Reif.
As it turns out, none of those irons panned out. But an even better opportunity did when a friend suggested a nearly turn-key space at Skyline 776, the brand-new luxury apartment building in downtown Cleveland.
“It was serendipitous,” adds Reif. “It was one of those things that felt too good to be true: right size, still close to the old space, it’s bright in ways that our old space wasn’t.”
Reif says that while it was bitter-sweet to leave the downtown space they had called home for 17 years, that space no longer served the current needs of the coffee company.
“It was a challenging space to operate, and it was built with a very different Cleveland in mind,” he says of the café at 1700 E. 9th St.
Reif described the former café as cavernous, dark, and located on the ground floor of a parking garage attached to an office building.
At roughly half the size, the new café is right-sized for today’s downtown coffee consumer, says Reif. There will still be enough room for in-house seating as well.
When it opens in the coming days or weeks, Phoenix Coffee store number five will offer the same lineup of fresh-baked cookies, muffins and scones supplemented by Cleveland Bagels and gluten-free and vegan treats from Philomena Bake Shop.
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