LOGAN SQUARE — Plans to build a Bow Truss outpost in Wicker Park fell through final week, and now the Logan Square location — that had been sealed given Jan due to a high-profile worker walkout — is strictly not reopening.
Passion House Coffee Roasters, a Near West Side-based small-batch coffee roastery, is opening a initial coffee shop in a former Bow Truss Logan Square, 2631 N. Kedzie Ave.
Starting Friday, Passion House will expected be open from 7 a.m.-3 p.m. each day until a grand opening May 1, when hours will be extended until 7 p.m., pronounced Monika Dixon, who handles open family for Passion House.
The coffee emporium will offer espresso-based drinks, season coffee and cold brew, as good as an array of pastries, light lunch items, “mocktails” and coffee sno-cones.
“We are respected to be on a same travel of implausible talents, like Longman and Eagle, Same Day Cafe and Reno, and only around a dilemma from Lula Cafe, Fat Rice, Yusho and large others,” Dixon wrote in a prepared statement.
“Our roastery is not really accessible, so we wanted a plcae that was a sum opposite, surrounding ourselves in a area that appreciates qualification and supports tiny internal businesses.”
Passion House was founded by Joshua Millman in 2011. Millman chose Logan Square for his initial coffee emporium since of a neighborhood’s “rich history.”
“In Logan Square, a clever friendly tie is clear all around — from active refuge groups to village gardens and a locally-run farmers market. It is a village that embodies a laid behind coffee emporium enlightenment and facilitates what we call ‘relationship coffee,'” a matter read.
During a scarcely two-year run, Bow Truss Logan Square served coffee and locally-made pastries in the small emporium opposite from a Logan Square Blue Line station.
When asked about a closure, CEO Phil Tadros touted a expansion of a eccentric coffee chain, that is Chicago’s biggest.
“Mind you, we are a 4-year-old association that grew to 11 open locations and 6 underneath construction in only a final 24 months,” Tadros wrote in an email.
“We were always scrappy and vulnerable, though what Crain’s set us adult for and what Marcus knocked us down for no tiny business should go adult against.”
Tadros is referring to an explosive Crain’s story that minute his gusto for withdrawal a route of lawsuits, unsuccessful businesses and dissapoint investors and vendors in his wake.
Tadros denied a legitimacy of a Jul report, accusing a reporter of “violating a garland of broadcasting standards that even a few supermarket tabloids wouldn’t touch” in a self-authored Medium post.
In July, Tadros was arrested on a domestic assault charge that was after forsaken when a plant did not seem in court.
Partnerships with Iliana Regan and Jared Leonard on dual different, ephemeral concepts during 2928 N. Broadway fell detached final year, forcing a closures of Bunny, a microbakery, and The Budlong.
The battle over Budlong Hot Chicken led to another lawsuit, with Tadros accusing Leonard of violation their handling agreement and claiming Leonard disregarded a noncompete clause.
In December, Tadros was finalizing a understanding to sell a infancy stake in Bow Truss to business noble Marcus Lemonis.
Then, on Jan. 12, employees during all 10 Bow Truss locations, including a Logan Square outpost, didn’t come to work over bounced paychecks and a seizing of businessman apparatus due to nonpayment. At a time, Tadros called a worker walk-off a “temporary setback,” though a Logan Square outpost never reopened.
The understanding between Tadros and Lemonis eventually fell apart, with Tadros suing the business noble over a passed deal.
Lemonis is the owner of Red Beard Coffee Traders, that is taking over a storefront that was ostensible to residence a Bow Truss Wicker Park outpost before skeleton fell apart.