New CC's: Ambassador at Congress

After closing the chain's store on Ambassador Caffery Pkwy. near Robley Dr. just last month, CC's Community Coffee House is set to break ground on a new store just down the road. Ground breaking is scheduled for this week on a new stand-alone store on Ambassador at W. Congress St.

The drive-thru store will face Ambassador, and will be located next to the Valero gas station, in front of Albertson's. "Weather permitting; we should be open January/February timeframe," says Sean Marlow, the company's real estate and store operations manager. CC's nearest competitor will be the Starbucks in front of Wal-Mart down Ambassador. The new store will be the Baton Rouge-based chain's eighth location in Lafayette.

CC's Ambassador Location Closes Friday

Lafayette's first modern chain coffee shop will close for good Friday.  Community Coffee's CC's Coffee House is not renewing the lease on the space it's occupied on Ambassador Caffery (across from Charlie G's, near Broadmoor Blvd.).  Company representatives tell me they're scouting the area for a new location, but nothing is final yet.  Most of the locations the company has recently built in Lafayette and Baton Rouge have included drive thru service.  The Ambassador location was not set up for that configuration.  

CC's has been extremely successful here, with five locations in Lafayette - not including multiple kiosks around the city.  I believe the local chain's market share was a factor when Starbucks decided to close a number of newly-built stores in Lafayette last year.

Before CC's opened in the late '90s, I know a few local coffee shops were in business in Lafayette (Cafe Cottage, Cornwell's, what was the name of the place where Papa John's is now across from UL?).