Jax Coffee Co. expands to Downtown with its fourth location! The downtown location will feature the same coffee menu and the same six to eight different types of beans roasted throughout Central and South America and West Africa. Founder Jose Parada, a native El Salvadoran, has a personal connection to some of these farms and has known of them since he was a boy. The cafe will also serve breakfast and lunch sourced from the Blueberry Bakery (Southern Grounds) and Cinotti’s Bakery-Sandwich Shop.

The store will also feature consumer and wholesale equipment from Parada’s complementary firm, First Coast Espresso.

The 600-square-foot space is smaller than its other locations but offers an urban feel that is not present at the stores on Beach Boulevard, in Southside or in the Town Center. Housed on the first floor of the Dyal-Upchurch Building, which was designed by architect Henry John Klutho, the building was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places in 1980.