Wednesday, July 2, 2008

Fiesta area coffee house closes shop

A week after announcing they they were going to move to a different location, Essenza Coffee House has decided to close its doors for good. Its not all that surprising however, since Starbucks is closing 600 stores, but its always disappointing when local-owned businesses go under. Not really clear how big of a blow that this makes to the entire Fiesta District renewal, but it is one more store front that will be empty.

I believe that the shop is in the same plaza as the closed down 3 fountains movie theater. After seeing what happened when the Target took out the old Service Merchandise, perhaps its time for the land owners to consider the same over there.

1 comment:

Kevin Creighton said...

Your guess is correct: It is/was located right next to the old Three Fountains theaters.

This is sad, as Essenza had a great laid-back vibe, a unique haven of local enterprise in a generic world of Starbucks.