More Details On Dutch Bros. Closure

The Dutch Bros. drive-through coffee hut at Central Avenue and Camelback Road will shut down no later than Feb. 28, 2020, as per a private understanding came to between the franchise owner and delegates of close-by organizations.

However, it peruses somewhat better on paper. The city’s zoning head, Michael Widener, consented to repudiate Dutch Bros.’s two use grants for that site—one for open air eating, one for the drive through—viable one year from the date of his ruling, which was on March 14.

In any case, all parties concurred that the business will close, regardless of whether another Dutch Bros. opens only a short distance west on Camelback Road near 3rd Avenue.


According to the agreement reached between franchise owner Jim Thompson and the adjoining entrepreneurs, including Kimber Lanning of Stinkweed’s, the current area will close at the latest Dec. 28 of this current year. Be that as it may, if the new location a few block away is still under construction at that point, the understanding permits an extra 60 days for the Central and Camelback area to stay open—conveying it to Feb. 28, 2020. This is to make it simpler for representatives to progress to the new area without much down time in the middle of, should the new area be finished at the very latest Feb. 28 at the most recent. Thompson said it takes a normal of 100 days to build a Dutch Bros. developing starting from the earliest stage.

Some portion of the private settlement understanding additionally stipulates that the walk-up window will stay shut for all time at the current site, and for the length of the coffee shop at that area, the driveway Central Avenue will be utilized for exit, and for a correct turn south onto Central Avenue only. New signage and barriers will be set up to deal with the change. Any future proprietor of the property at 4 W. Camelback Street should re-apply to the city for grants to utilize the current driveway and outside feasting yard.