The Corner Coffeehouse will be moving to a new corner in downtown Hopkinsville in the next month or so, owners Amanda and April Huff-McClure confirmed today.
The new location will be on the ground floor of the Pennyroyal Building at 11th and Main streets.
After two years in business on South Virginia near Seventh Street, the coffeehouse is ready for a larger space with more seating, said Amanda.
The goal for the business has always been to “serve good coffee and what goes well with coffee,” and that won’t change, she said.
The menu will continue to focus on coffee, teas, sandwiches, wraps and baked goods. But the restaurant space at the Pennyroyal Building will provide about triple the seating compared to the current location.
The Pennyroyal Building was sold at auction along with several Cayce family properties in late November. The buyers, Tyler Young and Taylor Thieke, recruited the Huff-McClures to move the coffeehouse.
The Corner Coffeehouse opened on April 1, 2017. Amanda and April, who were married in late 2016, share duties running the coffeehouse. They are also raising three children, and Amanda has a full-time career teaching piano.
The coffeehouse hours — 6:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday — will continue at the new location.
The exact move date will be determined in the coming weeks, but Amanda said she hopes to be in the Pennyroyal Building by mid- to late-May.
“The kitchen is undergoing renovations, and we are purchasing new kitchen equipment,” she said.
“It will be a completely different environment,” she added. “We have family and friends who are making unique art for us.”
In addition to the restaurant space at 11th and Main, the coffeehouse’s customers will be able to use the building’s adjacent foyer space. It will have seating as well.
Amanda said she wants the new location to be a place where people gather to socialize and for small business meetings.
In the meantime, the coffeehouse remains open at its South Virginia Street location.
More information about the business and menu are available on the coffeehouse’s Facebook page, @CornerCoffeehouse.
Jennifer P. Brown is co-founder, publisher and editor of Hoptown Chronicle. You can reach her at editor@hoptownchronicle.org. Brown was a reporter and editor at the Kentucky New Era, where she worked for 30 years. She is a co-chair of the national advisory board to the Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues, governing board past president for the Kentucky Historical Society, and co-founder of the Kentucky Open Government Coalition. She serves on the Hopkinsville History Foundation's board.
