Wednesday, May 15, 2013
A Hatboro official told Patch that the owner of the building that formerly housed Maine Star Coffee failed to comply with several agreed upon issues.
The future of the retail space within Hatboro Lofts is largely dependent upon the property owner's compliance with the borough, an official told Patch. Following Monday's announcement that the struggling Maine Star Coffee had abruptly closed, Hatboro Borough Manager Fred Zollers told Patch that the business opened in January without a certificate of occupancy permit. "We didn’t close them down," Zollers said, adding that the borough certainly had that authority. "But they were never issued a final CO." Zollers said a permit for the business' opening, and more recently, to grant permission to add signs to the exterior of the 237 Jacksonville Road site could not be had because the owner of Hatboro Lofts failed to pay required escrow money to…
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Monday, May 13, 2013
Hatboro's Maine Star Coffee opened in January and closed unexpectedly after four months.
Its phone number has been disconnected, its doors are locked and most of the furniture inside the 3,400-square-foot Maine Star Coffee has been removed. The Jacksonville Road coffeehouse, which opened in January adjacent to the Hatboro Lofts, has closed its doors for good, Fran Carroll, a local musician who had led open mic nights there Saturday nights confirmed on Monday. "(The owner) closed the doors for good last Saturday night after the open mic," Carroll told Patch. "I didn't know anything about it until the end of the night." Two days prior to the closing, owner Dexter Watson, during a separate event at Maine Star, shared with Patch that the coffee shop, which he had hoped would double as a community meeting space and events site, …
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Tuesday, January 8, 2013
Maine Star Coffee opened Tuesday on Jacksonville Road in Hatboro.
As a former manager of Starbucks, Lindsey Saunders has the whole barista thing down. Add in her culinary arts, baking and pastry degrees and she's a veritable coffeehouse in the flesh. Saunders, co-owner of Maine Star Coffee, 237 Jacksonville Road in Hatboro, took what she mastered elsewhere and improved upon it for her new business, which opened Tuesday within Hatboro Lofts. "It's unique," Saunders said of the cozy and bright 55-seat coffeehouse, which carries a summer vacation theme in its name and decor thanks to co-owner Dexter Watson, who financed the $350,000 makeover and enjoys vacationing in Maine. "It's a nice place to hang out." At least that's the hope. In addition to offering free wi/fi like Maine Star's chain counterparts, …
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