Cold Stone Creamery planned for downtown Bloomington apartment building
A downtown Bloomington apartment complex may soon get a coffee shop and an ice cream store.
Developers of The Annex apartment complex, at East Third and South Grant streets, plan to have a Coffee Beanery and a Cold Stone Creamery on the ground floor.
The proposal has to make its way through the local planning process. A hearing on the matter has been set for 2 p.m. Aug. 30 at Bloomington City Hall.
The Annex offers 102 apartments, including 66 studios, 28 with one bed and eight with two beds. The apartments are spread over two buildings on opposite sides of South Grant Street, along East Third.
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The price for studio apartments begins at $1,015 per month. Fifteen percent of the units have rent and income restrictions.
The coffee and ice cream shops would occupy the western building. The bottom of the eastern building will house a Bru Burger restaurant. City officials recently approved that part of the project, a local planner said.
The buildings are within two blocks of Kirkwood Avenue and Indiana University’s Maurer School of Law.
Cold Stone Creamery, based in Scottsdale, Arizona, sells ice cream, ice cream cakes, sorbets and shakes. The company has seven stores in Indiana, all in the Indianapolis area, according to its website.
Coffee Beanery was founded in 1976 in Dearborn, Michigan. According to its website, the company also has locations in Kentucky, Georgia, Texas, Florida and some eastern states. The site says its Bloomington location is "coming soon."
Boris Ladwig can be reached at bladwig@heraldt.com.
This article originally appeared on The Herald-Times: The Annex in Bloomington seeks OK for Cold Stone, Coffee Beanery
