JEFFERSONVILLE — It’s not peanut butter and jelly, though house games and coffee are a flattering good combination.
That’s what Andrew Just, who co-owns Pearl Street Game and Coffee House with his wife, Kim, is betting on, anyway.
“If you’re sitting down personification a game, a subsequent thing we substantially wish to do is get something to drink. You Know? It’s only kind of natural,” he said.
At Pearl Street Game and Coffee House, that non-stop on Friday, business can suffer both coffee concoctions brewed regulating Louisville-based Good Folks Coffee beans and a bookcase full of family-friendly label and house games. The games are unpackaged and giveaway for anyone to use.
Also accessible during a 405 Pearl Street emporium are games for purchase, though not your standard Wal-Mart finds. The business bonds cult-favorites, such as Munchkin and Magic a Gathering cards, as good as several other games.
During weekday mornings and afternoons, Just cinema a cafeteria appealing to a veteran throng — those who wish to refuel while operative on their laptops. He’s also perceived seductiveness from internal overpass groups looking for a place to play.
In a evenings, Just expects a emporium to reconstruct into a some-more game-oriented place — for families or anyone else who wants to squeeze a Scrabble board.
Just is also operative on putting together a report of diversion tournaments. He’s open to requests, too — for some-more games to stock, opposite events to have and even coffee products to serve.
He wants a crowds pouring over a Big Four Bridge to be greeted by a ideal activity spot.
Just is ensuring that by imbuing peculiarity into a Pearl Street Game and Coffee House. The shop’s espresso appurtenance is a famed Black Eagle, used by champion brewers.
“It’s [worth] 3 times some-more than my car,” Just said.
The appurtenance helps with coffee consistency. Just wants a shop’s drinks to be of a same peculiarity no matter who is portion it. He and his staff took coffee lessons during Good Folks to learn how to compare any other.
Just spent only as most appetite on crafting a shop’s interior. When he initial saw a inside of his building, there were holes in a floor.
405 Pearl St. is one of homes that are partial of Jeffersonville Main Street Inc.’s Pearl Street Infill Revitalization Project.
Once located during where a bottom of a Big Four Bridge is now, 4 ancestral homes were changed to Pearl Street for preservation. Main Street perceived grants to reconstruct a houses with a goal to franchise them to entrepreneurs.
So far, Main Street uses one as a office. Another houses Pearl Street Taphouse, and a final is still though a tenant.
As for Pearl Street Game and Coffee House, Jay Ellis, Main Street’s executive director, pronounced a emporium was a good fit for a project.
“It was positively an innovative concept,” Ellis said.
That, and Just’s “solid” business devise sole a Main Street cabinet on usurpation his application.
Main Street renovated a home to a indicate where it was leasable, though Just took it from there.
He bought half of a stable in Kentucky and used a materials to line a inside of a emporium — whitewashing a timber on a ceiling. Many of a materials used in a cafeteria are recycled, including a slab coffee counter. That was left over from a pursuit that Just’s full-time employer, StoneMark Granite, completed.
Some of a pattern elements exhibit Just’s nerdy tendencies, like a fabrication Scrabble letters that spell out menu equipment or a Darth Vader portrayal unresolved nearby a bathroom.
The house diversion and coffee emporium is a ideal try for Just, a long-time Magic a Gathering fan and diversion collector.
“I’ve wanted to do it given we was a kid,” he said.