One of Chattanooga’s biggest new apartment complexes, which opened to residential tenants last month, soon will feature both a coffee shop and exercise facility as the first retail tenants in the five-building complex take shape downtown.
Just Love Coffee Cafe and a Hotworx exercise and fitness facility will open next year on the first floor of the River Rock apartments built at Walnut and Fourth streets in downtown Chattanooga. The Beach Co., a Charleston, South Carolina-based real estate developer, is building 163 apartments on the upper floors of the River Rock mixed-use development, which will also feature 16,000 square feet of ground-floor commercial space built on one of the former Unum employee parking lots downtown.
“We know this location will be a delicious addition to the Chattanooga area,” said Robb Webb, the chief executive of the Franklin, Tennessee-based Just Love Coffee, which operates 26 locations, including 10 in Tennessee. “Being a Tennessee-based brand, we have been eager to open a location in the Chattanooga area.”
The cafe’s 2,027-square-foot location is expected to open in summer 2022 and will feature specialty coffee drinks, in addition to breakfast, lunch and dinner options including a chocolate chip cookie dough waffle, a waffle omelet named the “wOmelette” and a quinoa-veggie wrap.
Next fall, Hotworx will open a 1,922-square-foot fitness facility in River Rock that will offer a virtually instructed exercise program created for users to experience the benefits of infrared heat absorption while completing a 30-minute isometric workout or 15-minute, high-intensity interval training sessions. Hotworx franchisee Josh Snyder said Hotworx uses a patented sauna that combines heat, infrared and exercise, dubbed “3D training,” to create a workout unlike any other fitness program.