Progress has stalled for the Blue Valley area’s first Messenger Coffee café.
A year after the Kansas City-based company’s owners reported supply chain-related delays, construction of the new coffee shop at the Prairiefire shopping center in southern Overland Park has yet to start.
The store is coming to Overland Park’s Prairiefire shopping center
- Plans for the site include a full operating kitchen and bakery in addition to the coffee bar.
- It will have both indoor and outdoor seating, along with a drive-thru.
- The roughly 6,000-square-foot coffee shop will neighbor Andy’s Frozen Custard and Chicken N Pickle at the shopping center.
- The site is also across West 137th Street from the incoming Oak Star Bank — for which construction is underway.
The store was supposed to open in 2021
- At the beginning of 2022, officials from FairWave Holdings — the owners of Messenger Coffee Co. — said the project was facing construction delays due to supply chain shortages on building materials.
- At the time, FairWave Holdings CEO Dan Trott said the store would likely open later in 2022 instead.
- This week, officials from the company said they have no updates — including an estimated opening date — for the store right now.
This will be the company’s third Johnson County café
- Messenger Coffee Co. operates two Johnson County cafés under different names.
- This includes the Black Dog Coffeehouse in Lenexa and Filling Station in Overland Park.
- The company operates three Messenger Coffee stores on the Missouri side of Kansas City — including a new one that opened this week at the Kansas City International Airport.
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