A former Starbucks Coffee Co. shop is targeted for conversion into what appears to be the 11th identified Dutch Bros Coffee drive-thru-only kiosk location.
City utility JEA is reviewing a service availability determination request for the 1,510-square-foot space next to a FedEx store at 14355 Beach Blvd. at northeast Beach Boulevard and San Pablo Road.
Starbucks moved nearby into a remodeled Wendy’s at 14447 Beach Blvd. at northeast Beach and San Pablo. The coffee chain has been replacing in-line stores with nearby stand-alone stores and drive-thrus.
The Dutch Bros and FedEx stores will operate side-by-side in a roughly 3,400-square-foot building next to the Pablo Station shopping station.
The Dutch Bros location has a double-drive-thru. It is drive-thru only with no indoor or outdoor seating.
Z Development Services of Orlando is the project agent.
The project description says the site will be reworked to accommodate Dutch Bros standards. There will be a tenant improvement.
In what looks like its 10th area location, Dutch Bros also appears to be considering a Jacksonville drive-thru kiosk at northeast Flagler Center Boulevard and Old St. Augustine Road.
JEA also previously received a service determination request for a ninth area Dutch Bros Coffee kiosk.
That one is shown at the Harbour Village shopping center at northwest Atlantic Boulevard and San Pablo Road, near Queen’s Harbour Yacht & Country Club.
Dutch Bros has opened three area stores.
The first area Dutch Bros opened in August 2024 at 50 McCoy Way in St. Augustine, about a half-mile north of a Publix at the Shoppes at Palencia Commons in St. Johns County.
The first Duval County kiosk opened in November 2024 at 5733 Roosevelt Blvd. near Winn-Dixie in West Jacksonville. The site had been a Larry’s Giant Subs, which was demolished.
The third in Duval County opened this week at 7720 Argyle Forest Blvd. in Southwest Jacksonville.
Other pending locations are shown in public records to be in Elevation Pointe and the Shops at Race Track Rd in St. Johns County; and in Jacksonville at Point Meadows along Baymeadows Road, at northeast San Jose Boulevard and Loretto Road in Mandarin, and at 7952 Normandy Blvd. in West Jacksonville.
Besides specialty coffee, the company sells its Dutch Bros Rebel energy drink and Nitro Cold Brew coffee.
In 2023, Grants Pass, Oregon-based Dutch Bros announced its intentions to enter Northeast Florida.
Dutch Bros carries coffee, drinks and a limited menu of pastries with no cooking on-site.
It offers cold brew, chai, hot coffees, energy drinks, teas, lemonades, smoothies and its signature Dutch sodas.
The food menu includes granola bars and muffin tops.
Dutch Bros started in 1992 and became a public company in 2021 with the formation of Dutch Bros Inc. It is listed as BROS on the New York Stock Exchange.
The name is pronounced “Bros” and not as “brothers.”
The company has been expanding and as of Sept. 30, 2024, had 950 locations across 18 states.
It opened 38 shops, 33 of which were company-operated, across 11 states in the July-September third quarter.
It expected to open 150 new kiosks in 2024.