New coffee shop at the old home of Zippy’s Java Lounge
Published 8:24 am Monday, November 22, 2010
It didn’t take long to fill the space Zippy’s Java Lounge used to inhabit at 1804 Hewitt Ave. Last week, I stopped by Black Dot Coffee, the new tenant at that location, to chat with owners Glenn Coggeshell and Trix Bruce.
Glenn is an Everett native and a musician. He started a coffee roasting and exporting business called Black Dot, after an acquaintance living in Russia complained about the coffee. He was featured in “Entrepreneur Magazine” in 2008. More recently, he has been involved in a dispute over a coffee line called the Deadliest Brew named for the late Phil Harris of the Discovery Channel show “Deadliest Catch.” A banner for Deadliest Brew coffee hung in the space downtown last week.
Coggeshell and Bruce have big hopes for the coffee shop. They plan to use his connections to the music industry to bring live music to Everett’s downtown on Friday and Saturday nights. Open mic nights are planned for Thursdays at 7:30 p.m. Right now, he’s selling just coffee. After the first of the year, he hopes to add wine and beer to the mix. He made me an Americano and it was tasty.
Right now, however, business is “kind of slow,” he said.
I’ll catch up with Zippy’s Marilyn Rosenberg in a few weeks. Last I chatted with her, she was getting settled at her new home at 3231 Creatives on Broadway.
