Coffee Culture coming to Gore in the core
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Coffee Culture is coming to the Gore Building downtown.
Ward 2 Councillor Jason Farr said it is “a done deal.”
According to Farr, getting a Coffee Culture — described on its website as “an Old World style coffee house” — into the commercial space was more than a year in the making.
The five-storey building at 89 King St. at John Street, a public housing building owned by Hamilton Housing, is not part of the city’s Gore Building Improvement Grant Program that was set before the planning committee last October.
According to John Hryczynski, a broker for the real estate company that leased the space to Coffee Culture, the chain bought both retail units listed on the website, which spans the entire ground floor of the building.
“They wanted to have a presence in downtown Hamilton,” said Hryczynski. “It certainly makes good business for them; there are a lot of professional buildings in the area.”
The space Coffee Culture will call home has an estimated 1,730 square feet.
Hryczynski said there were a few tenants interested in the space for lease.
“The landlord (Hamilton Housing) was waiting for a good fit and Coffee Culture was a very good fit for that space,” said Hryczynski
This will be the chain’s third store in Hamilton. There is another location on Centennial Parkway and one in Ancaster. There is also one in Burlington.
Coffee Culture is owned by Obsidian Group Inc. which also owns Crabby Joe’s Tap & Grill and Union Burger. In Stoney Creek, the company also opened a Union Burger in the same unit, but Farr said that won’t be the case in the downtown location.
“It’ll be an artists’ studio space,” he said.
It’s not known when construction will begin, but Farr says it’s “imminent.” A spokesperson for Hamilton Housing, however, says a “fall/early winter opening is feasible.”