LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Officials with Heine Brothers' Coffee have announced an upcoming closure of a downtown location.
Their Fourth Street location inside Meidinger Tower will close its doors on March 17.
According to co-founder and president Mike Mays, cites traffic at the location isn’t where it needs to be to justify continuing operations.
“We will continue to operate our other downtown Louisville store in the PNC Tower at Fifth and Main Streets, and we look forward to seeing people drop by when they’re in the area,” he said in a statement.
This closure comes less than a year after the coffee company abruptly closed their Douglass Loop location last summer.
Mays said at the time they would be shifting their focus to drive-thru coffee shops.
"Even before the pandemic drive-thrus were becoming a store feature that our customers demanded more and more," he said.
That store was slated to open last fall but made its debut in late January.
Heine Brothers' said all of the baristas from the Meidinger Tower location will be offered positions at other locations.
Full statement from the Heine Brothers Bargaining Committee:
While we are sad to lose the 4th Street Heine Brothers location, we are satisfied with the outreach and accommodations of our employer through this process. Heine Brothers’ reached out to our union with advanced notice of this store closure, and have ensured that all workers previously at the 4th Street location can move to another store location of their choice.
We are pleased that none of our coworkers will suffer undue hardship from this closure, and we look forward to continuing bargaining a fair contract with our employer that includes fair wages, fair schedules, and paid time off.
The 4th Street Crew is excited to see their old regulars at their new stores!
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