Want to Start a Coffee Shop in San Antonio?

[Kristina Modares]

(Please share with anybody who may be interested!)

Hi!

My partner and I own a commercially zoned building near the Alamodome that has ~700 sq ft of space available. The property is a tri-plex and the other tenants include a local bakery (that doesn't sell coffee). There is also a backyard available for outdoor seating or additional parking if needed. We're nearing the completion of renovations to the building and would love to have a coffee shop tenant in place.

We're also passionate about local businesses and helping people realize their dreams. My business partners day job is working in creative marketing with entrepreneurs, authors, media companies and startups. He helps clients attract the type of media attention they deserve. He's helped launch several 7 figure businesses in the past. 

So instead of filling our commercial space in the traditional way, we wanted to try something unique. We're posting this in hopes that it convinces a person reading this to finally take the jump and build the coffee shop of their dreams. We'd love to partner with someone and create the coffee shop we'd all love to go to. We will work purely in an advisory role to help make the coffee shop great. Day-to-day, this is your baby, and something you'll need to love doing.

Here is what we'll help with:

- Space. We can provide the raw shell of a commercially zoned property to develop this coffee shop. Details still need to be worked out, but we can offset rent in initial startup months to take pressure off initially.

- Business/Marketing advice: Creating things that attract attention is what I do day-to-day. We'll help sit down and develop strategies to make this coffee shop THE place to go in the neighborhood and potentially city.

Here is what you need to do:
- Reply. You never know how your life can change with an email. If you think this might be something you're interested with, shoot us an email and lets chat.

- Coffee/hospitality experience. Ideally, you've run or helped run a coffee shop in the past.
Management experience. Hiring/running the coffee shop is something you're comfortable with. Employees and all.

- Obtain necessary permits/licenses. Our property is zoned C2, which allows for coffee shops. However, you'll be required to obtain any further permits/licenses needed to operate a coffee shop in the space

- Business plan. We'd like to see at least a rough idea of how you plan to run your business

- Startup capital. We can assist in not collecting rent for a period of time, and helping with changes to the building, but all other startup capital will need to come from you.