Foxtail Coffee Co. is opening a new location April 24 in the East San Marco shopping center at 2039 Hendricks Ave., Unit 114.
The store is owned by Ty Claggett and Doug Tutwiler. The 1,906-square- foot shop seats 38 inside and eight on the patio.
Rhodes Building Co. of Orlando built-out the project for about $550,000, Tutwiler said.
Doherty Sommers Architects Engineers Inc. is the architect. Regency Centers Corp. owns East San Marco and is the landlord.
Foxtail Coffee Co. announced in November 2021 that it was opening the Hendricks Avenue store and one at 260 Front St., Suite 260, in Sawgrass Village in Ponte Vedra Beach. That store opened in June 2022.
There is no shortage of coffee shops in Jacksonville and the San Marco shopping district already has several.
“We are going to find out if Foxtail resonates with people. I’m confident we will. But you never know until you open your doors,” Tutwiler said.
It sells a full coffee menu, breakfast products, lunch and Foxtail merchandise.
It also has a Kelly’s Homemade Ice Cream Counter featuring dessert products made in Central Florida. The company sells cold coffee as well as at-home brewers and accessories.
The company will open a taproom featuring craft beers from Mocama Beer Company of Fernandina Beach once it has a beer and wine license.
Initially the store will be open from 6 a.m. to 8 p.m.
It will stay open later on Friday, Saturday and Sunday when the taproom is operating.
Selling coffee, ice cream and beer will allow the business to have three distinct sets of customers, Tutwiler said.
“It makes a ton of sense. We see San Marco as an evening dining destination,” he said.
Foxtail is based in Winter Park and was started by Alex Tchekmeian and Iain Yeakle, friends who met in kindergarten in South Florida, according to the company website.
It began in 2016 in the 70-year-old State Auto Body building in Winter Park.
The founders began roasting coffee to sell to individual customers and commercial accounts. They also built an on-site coffee shop.
The company uses Arabica coffee beans, native to Yemen and Ethiopia but which are grown in several countries around the world.
The company says that the beans it purchases are grown by farmers who respect the environment and pay fair wages.
With the opening of the new store there are 49 shops in Florida and one in Newnan, Georgia, according to its website.
Claggett and Tutwiler expect to continue opening Foxtail locations throughout Northeast Florida.
“I would say over the next four years we will open another five or 10 more, maybe more,” Tutwiler said.