6 The Herald
September 2, 2021
COFFEE FROM PAGE 1
Juliane Cassidy walks toward home after enjoying a drip coffee in her reusuable mug at Mango Tree Coffee in Englewood on Aug. 26. PHOTOS BY RACHEL LORENZ
the team that started the shop did a lot of the construction themselves — outside of the 9-to-5 jobs they hold for MANNA Worldwide, the nonprofit that owns Mango Tree. They found the location at Broadway and Hampden a couple of years ago and didn’t mind the building’s “dilapidated state” because it was in an up-and-coming area, full of other new businesses doing renovations. “We could come in and do the work,” Corona said. “And we were getting a great location with that.” Meanwhile, Brad Nixon was approaching a decade of serving jitter juice in CityCenter when a ruptured 4-inch sprinkler pipe closed the Englewood location of Nixon’s Coffee in December 2020. “That was kind of the kickoff to what we felt like we were going to do anyway — remodel the place,” said Nixon, who owns Nixon’s Coffee with his wife, Caren. The work took longer than Nixon had hoped due to a shortage of laborers and a “calamity of things” he was uninterested in dwelling on. “That’s behind us,” he said. He’d rather talk about his love for Englewood, “a small town in a big city,” and the cross section of people that he sees come through the shop. “We try to create an environment where people like to come and stay with us for a while,” he said. “We love to see that cross pollination of thoughts, ideas, lifestyles, culture.” SEE COFFEE, P7
Drew Macalady prepares a beverage at Nixon’s Coffee in Englewood on Aug. 17.
