A growing and trendy national drive-in coffee chain operation with stores up and down the West coast as well as Arizona and Colorado is planning to expand its facility footprint.
Based in Portland, Oregon, the Black Rock Coffee Bar company is known for its wide variety of coffee offerings that include everything from a vanilla, almond, and cinnamon concoction called a Mexican Mocha to a line of Italian sodas and both pastry and breakfast items.
Visually, the company is known for the signature sleek industrial design of its buildings, which usually measure around 2,000 square feet. The no-frills design of Black Rock shops, notes a company press release, is aimed at ensuring that visitors can “relax, work, or socialize in a laidback and inviting environment.”
Launched in 2008, Black Rock has enjoyed an extraordinary pace of growth, seeing the building of more than one hundred stores in seven states over a period of a little over a decade. As of this spring, the company has opened a total of 137 stores.
The company has been particularly aggressive in Texas, opening 34 stores, with 17 in just the Houston metro area alone.
Now Black Rock, which opened its 34th store in metro Phoenix in April, is embarking on a plan to build another one hundred locations nationally by 2026.
While Black Rock has not said exactly where it plans to build those one hundred new locations, its focus has historically been in the West, where neither Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, or Wyoming currently have a single store.
By Garry Boulard
