By: Kevin Buchanan
In the shadow of Burnett Plaza, in a small building a block east of Henderson, a new coffee shop is getting ready to open. Above, you can see the current state of The House coffee bar, situated near the Firestone and AMLI Upper West Side apartments and the Westview condos. We’ve not heard a lot of details about this place, and there aren’t any hours posted yet, so we’ll keep an eye out for more information. It’s always good to get some more options in Downtown for coffee shops.
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Looks like this one is affiliated with the City Life Center Church:
http://www.mycitylifecenter.com/dyn_page.php?id=12
saweet!
It looks like there’s some more info on this place here: http://www.mycitylifecenter.com/news.php
I don’t see any information about the planned hours on that website, nor an expected opening date, but there is a proposed floorplan and further information about the venue.
From the same site cited by Frye:
The House Coffee Bar
A big part of who we are at city life center will be focused on ‘The House’. The idea of a coffee bar is simple, people drink coffee, we should make some! What’s with the name? we call it ‘The House’ because we want it to be just that, your house! we want you to feel at home, welcomed and relaxed as you enjoy great music and great coffee.
Our goal is to attract the local individuals be it, singles, young families, married couples, older couples, business men & women, moms etc. to stop by our coffee bar and experience real people, and real conversations, Unconditional Love and an open ear and hand. Our plan is to have a state of the art music venue were we will meet as a community of faith every Saturday night, but will also dual as a venue for local artist.
We want to provide a place were local artist can come and perform their music, show of their art, etc in a place were they feel safe, encouraged, appreciated and valued. We have purchased our building at 915 Florence St. and hope to open the doors by mid june 2009.
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I read through their website. It sounds like it will be a Church that will sell coffee.
I’ll take my coffee without prosthelytizing thank you.
Actually – while I am not religious at all, I met the pastor and one of the members working on the construction plans for the site….Really nice and genuine guys.
Hey thought I would take a second and give some info.
Yes City Life Center is a Church and will be meeting in the adjacent auditorium on saturday nights, check us out http://www.mycitylifecenter.com
The House Coffee Bar will be a place of business. We are not just a church selling coffee!
THe House will be a place where thursday and friday nights offer live local musicians performing and entertaining each and every week.
The house will be open for Live Music on The 10th and 11th of December for its official open doors to the public.
we are hoping to be open everyday of the week starting in Feb or March of 1010.
look for more information at http://www.thehousecoffeebar.com in the near future. and if you are or know of any local musicians or bands or artist that want to perform or display their work at our venue contact me Chris King at chris@mycitylifecenter.com
Cheers
creativity, love, faith, expression?? Sounds sweet, but the coffee better be good!!
I am a huge fan of good, local coffee bars/cafes but the religious element makes me nervous. I will, however, withhold judgment until I visit. The great thing about coffee bars/cafes is that they are important “third places” for *all* members of the community to meet and hang out. If this is just a veiled form of evangelism, I will be sorely disappointed.
urbndwlr – if this becomes a veiled form of evangelism I will be sorely disappointed as well, and I am the brains behind The House Coffee Bar!
Although I am a follower of Christ, I also love people, real conversation and coffee.
if it ever becomes something that is not comfortable, accepting, warm, creative, embracing the arts and a local favorite, please kick my behind
I am so glad to have a coffee place that is not a Starbucks. Thank you City Life Center!!
Annie – totally agree!
Chris – I appreciate your response and attitude. I also have to commend you for good building signage so far. I look forward to trying it out.
urbndwlr-thanks, I was a bit worried about that one:)
we should be open for live music the weekend of Dec 10-12th
Coffee Bar itself should be open daily to the public hopefully by Feb or March of 2010! it will be open Thurs, Fri and sat nights as long as there is local talent that wants to perform!
come say hi
Annie – You’re welcome