Spiller Park Coffee Shop Is Opening in Historic Hotel Row on Mitchell Street in Downtown Atlanta

As proprietor Dale Donchey indicated final drop, a new spot of Spiller Park Coffee will soon reside on Mitchell Avenue in downtown Atlanta. The coffee shop, slated to open by early 2023, is just the most up-to-date food stuff and beverage business enterprise to be a part of the redevelopment of historic Resort Row by Newport Holding.

Donchey says he’s been arranging this site considering the fact that 2018, following 1st serving espresso to Newport Keeping senior vice president April Stammel next the opening of Spiller Park in Toco Hills. A yr afterwards, Stammel introduced Donchey with the downtown Atlanta chance.

He and his team frequented the site on numerous occasions, ahead of executing their initial pop there for the duration of the Super Bowl in 2019, when Atlanta hosted the big game at nearby Mercedes-Benz Stadium. Very last summer season, Donchey and his staff returned to the Mitchell Street room with a pop-up coffee shop, serving the neighborhood and weekday workforce for a number of months. Occasionally, Donchey’s bagel pop-up, Dear Close friend, Bagels, produced appearances, way too.

A lot of of the brick constructions and old storefronts alongside Mitchell Road continue being fairly unchanged considering that currently being created more than a century ago.

“When I grew up and went to coffee retailers or a deli or went to a diner or sandwich shop, where ever I went was just hundreds of decades outdated and they made it their personal,” the Richmond, Virginia, native states.

“There’s a romance to a city that makes it possible for you to walk and stumble into these little shotgun, modest, personal spaces that really do not essentially deliver you with a modern-day retail practical experience, but a quite old school, extremely romantic, really intimate sort of setting,” he provides.

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The Mitchell Avenue locale is slightly refurbished, but essentially stays as it was 1 hundred decades in the past. White, teal, and maroon penny tiles type geometric patterns and flowers on the ground. Tin tiles line the ceiling, which is pulled again to reveal slatted wood tops in some areas. Fleur de lis and vine-like types intensify the molded metal on the walls. A plaque studying “Imperial Cafe” greets folks going for walks by means of the front doorway.

“A theory is that it was owned by the fruit and vegetable enterprise that was in that portion of city, so it was their cafe,” Donchey suggests. “I assume this place is heading to be pretty Roaring 20s-ish. I’m seeking to contact as little as probable mainly because it has so substantially of its individual character and come to feel.”

Donchey, who just lately opened a 3rd Spiller Park Espresso on Moores Mill in northwest Atlanta, says he doesn’t want to shed contact with the business at the cost of expansion. But he feels the intimacy and historic appeal of this fourth locale is “a fantastic number for it.”

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Historical past performs a critical part in the business enterprise product for Spiller Park Coffee. The record powering the building is what at first captivated Donchey to the central meals corridor at Ponce Metropolis Sector, the internet site of the 1st Spiller Park Espresso. The next spot resides in the historic and predominantly Jewish neighborhood surrounding the Toco Hill searching center built in the 1950’s on North Druid Hills Highway. It’s stated to be just one of the initially strip malls designed in Atlanta. With Mitchell Avenue, Donchey hopes to protect a space that’s just about untouched.

But Spiller Park’s trademark baseball aesthetic will work its way into the structure. “My complete design aesthetic is using classic baseball and modernizing it, and putting a espresso spin on it,” he says. “This will be an actual undertaking in using an outdated point and attempting to not make it modernized, but not make it feel dated.”

After transferring to Atlanta over two a long time ago, Donchey mixed his childhood enjoy of baseball with his appreciate for coffee. Prior to Spiller Park, he opened Continual Hand Pour Property with close friends, ultimately rebranding the emblem for the store into a baseball concept. Spiller Park by itself is named for the ballpark in which each Atlanta’s initially minor league baseball and Negro American League groups played in the course of the early a long time of the 20th century. It’s now residence to Midtown Spot procuring plaza, across the street from Ponce Town Market place.

“This house is our number 4,” Donchey states. “It’s our household hitter, and I assume that is what this area symbolizes for me. I believe it is my all-in on my intimate strategy of not only what Atlanta can be, but [also] what Spiller Park symbolizes in Atlanta.”

233 Mitchell Road, Atlanta. spillerpark.com.