Across the street from Midvale City Hall, Honeysuckle Coffee Co. inches closer to opening its third location.
On Oct. 7, Midvale’s Redevelopment Agency approved a term sheet for a $250,000 loan to 7511 Main Street LLC. The loan will aid in the house’s reconstruction, and the property will be leased to Honeysuckle Coffee after renovations.
Jeff Beck, the property’s owner, will use the funds to bring the existing house up to safety standards for business use, Aubrey Ruiz, Midvale’s RDA program manager, said at a meeting Sept. 16.
While Beck brings the house up to code, he plans on maintaining the single-story floor plan and keeping the garage intact to “keep that variety on Main Street, which was voted highly on the Main Street survey by the community,” Ruiz added.
Honeysuckle Coffee will run a cafe during the daytime and a Carolina-style barbecue restaurant in the evenings. The smokehouse and the coffee shop’s bakery will be housed in the retrofitted
garage.
The loan has a seven-year term at zero percent interest, as part of the city’s Midvale Main Adaptive Reuse Program, a city-run project meant to renovate Midvale’s historic city center.
“I am very excited about this project because I think it is going to be very successful,” Councilmember Bryant Brown said at the September meeting. “I want us [as a council] to look outward afterwards for other areas in the city where adaptive reuse can really benefit areas.”
Councilmember Heidi Robinson added she is “excited to see activation on this side of Main Street.”
Not only did Midvale’s RDA approve a loan to Beck on Oct. 7, but they also amended a zero-interest loan the agency issued directly to Honeysuckle Coffee in May. The new loan terms for the coffee shop changed the payment schedule to reflect its new opening date, Ruiz said in October.
“As you’ve seen, there is not huge progress in the construction yet for the building. Therefore, Honeysuckle is not going to be able to open by the end of the year as they previously had assumed,” she said.
“So the only thing that we’re going through and adjusting is in the previous term sheet. It was Dec. 1, 2025, that they would have to start making payments on the loan, whereas they’re planning on opening in the summer of 2026,” Ruiz continued. “So if they open before July 1, they’ll start paying before then. Otherwise, we’re hoping July 1 is going to be the opening date.”
The $250,000 loan to Honeysuckle will help the coffee shop purchase cafe fixtures and kitchen equipment, as well as make tenant improvements to the cafe and bakery, according to the term sheet of the loan agreement.
In its loan application, Honeysuckle estimates generating $1 million in its first year. With that revenue, Honeysuckle estimates staffing seven full-time and one part-time employee as baristas, four full-time and three part-time employees in its bakery, and two part-time and two full-time employees in its smokehouse, adding up to 19 new jobs in Midvale.