A new Platt Park coffee shop is going all in on CBD.<\/p>\n
Lindsey Sozio, owner of Lavender Coffee Boutique, is opening a one-stop-shop for CBD coffee, teas, and retail items at 1219 S. Pearl St. this fall.<\/p>\n
\u201cCBD is a really interesting opportunity,\u201d Sozio said. \u201cIt\u2019s been around, it\u2019s not an easy space to play in, and we don\u2019t feel like anyone is doing it well enough.\u201d<\/p>\n
Lavender Coffee Boutique isn\u2019t the first Denver coffee shop to offer CBD. Blue Sparrow, for example, sells a CBD iced latte, and SloHi Coffee can add CBD into any cup of joe and sells\u00a0Str\u00e4va CBD coffee beans.<\/p>\n
Sozio said Lavender\u2019s beans are sourced from Costa Rica and Peru, and are infused with 15 mg of CBD per serving, as opposed to adding an oil to the brewed coffee as some shops do.<\/p>\n
Lavender will also sell her favorite CBD products like face lotions and bath salts.\u00a0And traditionalists will still be able to get CBD-free coffee.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re just a regular local coffee shop that\u2019s a really nice environment to come into and we\u2019ve got this little specialty element to it that we think will bring people into the CBD market,\u201d her husband Scott Sozio said.<\/p>\n
Sozio said she uses CBD products every day, and said CBD coffee in particular is calming yet still energizing.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou don\u2019t get the jitters when you drink it (CBD coffee),\u201d Sozio said. \u201cI never feel like, oh my gosh I\u2019ve had too much coffee. It\u2019s an elevating but calm focus for everyday.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sozio leased the 1,300 square-foot Platt Park space about a year ago and it has been under construction since. Scott Sozio declined to disclose how much they\u2019ve invested on the buildout but added it\u2019s \u201con the upper end of what a coffee shop would spend.\u201d<\/p>\n
The shop is opening just behind Lincoln\u2019s Roadhouse,\u00a0which went on the market earlier this summer. A block away is the vacant restaurant that was home to a South Pearl staple,\u00a0Hanson\u2019s Grill & Tavern.<\/p>\n
In addition to Lavender Coffee Boutique, Sozio owns an interior design firm. Scott is a partner at the investment firm Van Dyke Holdings LLC, and was CEO at Mtech Acquisition Corp., according to SEC filings.<\/p>\n