NEW TODAY: Wayne Avenue coffee emporium operative to free after ‘unexpected problem’

***UPDATE (March 12, 2019)***

The Wholly Grounds, coffee emporium during 825 Wayne Ave. close down temporarily on Saturday, Mar 9, since of an astonishing technical emanate and is still operative to reopen, a owners pronounced this morning, Tuesday Mar 12, on the Wholly Grounds Facebook page.

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“We’ve run into an astonishing problem in regards to a emporium and we apologize to everybody for a check in reopening,” owners pronounced in a Facebook post this morning. “When it’s resolved, I’ll post when we devise to reopen. Thank we for your support and patience!”

Reached around email this morning, a shop’s founders pronounced they were “trying to free this week.” 

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Wholly Grounds formerly housed Lindy Company Gourmet Pet Treats, that changed a operations to South Patterson Boulevard dual years ago. 

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***PREVIOUS UPDATE (Dec. 24, 2018)***

Wayne Avenue has a new coffee shop: Wholly Grounds, 825 Wayne Ave., non-stop over a weekend, and is indeed open today, on Christmas Eve Day, nonetheless with somewhat condensed holiday hours.

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Wholly Grounds co-founder Amy Williams pronounced her new coffee emporium will be open from 6 a.m. to 3 p.m. currently and on New Year’s Eve day, Dec. 31, and will be sealed on Christmas Day and New Year’s Day.

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But otherwise, Wholly Grounds is now entirely open. Its unchanging hours are 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. weekdays, and 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. on weekends. 

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“Response has been flattering certain so far,” Williams told this news opening this morning, Dec. 24. “People in a area are excited, and I’m grateful for their support.”

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*** ORIGINAL STORY (October 2018) *** 

A pivotal square of a quickly rising Wayne Avenue Corridor is entrance together nicely, and a second will tumble in place over a following months in a shade of downtown Dayton.

And both are coffee shops.

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The owners of Wholly Grounds at 825 Wayne Ave. are enlightening a shop’s opening food and coffee menu, watchful on some city permits that are required to finish construction, and scheming to start a employing process, co-founder Amy Williams pronounced this week.

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Williams pronounced she is sharpened for an Oct opening for Wholly Grounds, that will offer baked products such as coffee cakes and muffins when it opens, and will supplement lunch menu equipment such as soups and wraps shortly thereafter. A sound complement has been installed, and live jazz song are also partial of the  skeleton for Wholly Grounds, Williams and co-founder (and husband) Robert Boyd have said. 

And only down a travel during 438 Wayne Ave., Reza’s Roast, a Fairborn coffee roastery that specializes in indiscriminate sales of coffees and beans, is in a construction proviso to open a initial sell coffee shop, “Reza’s Downtown.” Founder Audria Maki pronounced she is raised a intensity Dec opening, depending on swell of a build-out.

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Both of a designed coffee shops are in between dual existent Wayne Avenue coffee shops: Ghostlight Coffee at 1201 Wayne Ave. and Press Coffee Bar at Wayne Avenue and East Fifth Street. Completion of a dual new businesses will emanate a coffee emporium mezzanine of sorts, with 4 destinations within a six-tenths-of-a-mile stretch.

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 Reza Roast’s Maki told this news opening progressing this year that she is assured any shop, including hers, can find and keep a niche. 


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“Wayne Avenue is right in a heart of Dayton’s flourishing food stage and mainly located geographically, so this is ideal for what we were looking for,” Maki pronounced of her destiny coffee shop’s location. “We are a fourth coffee emporium opening (on Wayne Avenue) … though any is so opposite in terms of vibe, menu and patron bottom that it is not unequivocally a concern.”

Maki pronounced swell on Reza’s  Roast is being documented on Instagram @RezasDowntown, and a coffee is now accessible for squeeze during all 3 Dorothy Lane Market locations.

The Wholly Grounds space formerly housed Lindy Company Gourmet Pet Treats, that changed a operations to South Patterson Boulevard about dual years ago. And it is subsequent doorway to Dayton’s newest brewery, Branch Bone Artisan Ales.