Henrico supervisors green-light Lakeside coffee roastery
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Plans for a coffee roastery in Lakeside earned approval from the Henrico Board of Supervisors during the board's Aug. 8 meeting.
The board
approved a request for a provisional use permit allowing the Recluse Coffee Roastery to move from Scotts Addition in Richmond to 5607 Lakeside Avenue, just north of Lakeside’s intersection with Ginter Street. The roastery is planning to roast coffee at the site 1 to 2 days a week, sell chilled coffee, and host an online store with a local pick-up option and on-site store hours once a week (on Thursdays) and on select weekends once or twice a month. Recluse would be required to limit roasting to between the hours of 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. The county's planning commission had endorsed the proposal during a meeting last month.The currently vacant site is the former location of Sgt. Pepper’s Pizza and later Pizza Republic and is surrounded by single family homes, a pawn shop, and a gas station/auto repair shop. Recluse Coffee Roastery is a two-person company that has focused on direct trade specialty coffee, according to its owners, Jack Fleming and Aimee Biggerstaff. It has been in business for about five and a half years.
