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CENTRAL OREGON COFFEE
ROASTER OPENS COFFEEHOUSE IN PORTLAND OREGON'S PEARL DISTRICT
Now open at
1235 NW Marshall Street, across from
Bridgeport Brewery and Safeway, 6am-8pm, seven days a week
 PRESS RELEASE: PORTLAND, OR (April 25, 2011) –
Sisters Coffee Company, a 22 year old specialty coffee roaster headquartered in
Sisters, Oregon has opened a new café in the Pearl District of Portland,
Oregon. It is the company’s third location and looks to adapt their
rustic Oregon brand to the bustling market of Northwest Portland.
“This is a dream come true for my wife,
Joy and I. When we started Sisters Coffee Company in 1989, we never thought
we’d have three locations, let alone a coffeehouse in Portland,”
says owner Winfield Durham. “We feel blessed to have built so many
long-standing customer relationships”
Sisters Coffee Company – THE PEARL is
at
1235 NW Marshall Street, across from
Bridgeport Brewery and Safeway. Hours are 6am-8pm, seven days a week. It
is in the ground level of the Wyatt Apartments, the prestigious apartment high
rise completed in 2007. With 28 foot ceilings and windows spanning the entire
distance on two sides, ample natural light will help create warm, inviting
feeling for customers.
With such
a beautiful building in which to be doing business, it was clear only the most
dramatic café would truly compliment The Wyatt. Thus the Durham’s
hired Jenny Guggenheim, LEED AP, of Fig Studio to lead the overall design
process. Together with her husband Jeff, LEED AP and designer for Giulietti
Schouten Architects, they worked to create a dramatic coffeehouse that
effectively communicates the Sisters Coffee Brand to the Portland market.
“It was a natural fit working with Jenny. Her husband Jeff and I are good
buddies from Sisters High and Jeff is a great designer in his own right. They
brought a lot of talent and experience to our project being already familiar
with our brand. I am so proud of what we accomplished and we couldn’t
have done it without them,” says Justin Durham, Director of Sales and
Marketing.
R&H Construction
of Portland handled the project from start to finish and worked closely with
Sisters Coffee Company and Fig Studio to review every detail of the
coffeehouse. The Durham’s flagship store in Sisters is renowned for its
warm rustic ambiance making the design and construction of The Pearl
coffeehouse of the utmost importance.“It was a pleasure working with
R&H. They went the extra mile whenever they could and we can’t
recommend them enough. They handled our project with the utmost care and
professionalism”, states Winfield. Several other local companies aided in
the project including DiBona Stoneworks, Bamboo Revolution, Fixture Logic,
Capitol Electric, Avtech Systems Security Signs and many others.
The coffeehouse’s first floor will
feature a living room area with a sandstone fireplace and piano for live music.
The kitchen and barista area was designed with the help of Tom Palm of Design
and Layout Services as well as Keith Schrader of Bamboo Revolution. “We
put a lot of time into designing the most efficient bar possible and wanted to
get the best people we could to aid us,” says Justin.
Perhaps the most striking aspect of this
coffeehouse is its 253 sf mezzanine. Offering a conference table and 40”
television for public use, this area will allow for groups to congregate for
presentations and meetings. Also located upstairs will be a Community Library
where customers will be able to exchange books, with the focus being on
facilitating an environment of thought, reflection and dialogue.
Menu will focus on offering premium micro-lot
coffees served by the cup through a variety of ways including, Hario, Chemex,
French Press and Drip. The espresso menu will offer several specialty drinks
that Sisters Coffee Company has recently been working on in addition to the
traditional fare. This location will have an expanded Breakfast and Lunch menu
including made to order breakfast sandwiches, grab n’ go items and vast
array homemade and locally purveyed pastries as well as an evening dessert
menu.
The arts will also be a
major theme of this shop. In addition to frequent live music events the
café will feature Sisters Artist Dan Rickards and his Western Landscape
work. “One of our objectives was to introduce the Sisters Community to
our local customers in the Pearl, so people have a vision of where our company
is based and the people associated with it,” says Joy Durham.
In all, Winfield Durham is proud to continue
to offer a quality product that people all over the Northwest have enjoyed for
over 22 years. He gets up every morning at 4AM to go roast his coffee and
can’t imagine doing anything else.
See updates at
www.sisterscoffee.com.
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