CAFES
Nourishing sips, bites, and ENRICHMENTS
Creative community-centric cafes for arts, culture, and well-being.
Cafes offer much-needed IRL neighborhood spaces that gather community and empower through offerings, while holding the “greater world” mission – from service to food to events. Cafes often hold a town square feel, becoming center-points of connection.
CoCre Cafes intends to provide healthy, uplifting, and experiential hubs for nourishment, community connections, empowerment, and inspired collective action. Ideally, locations feature conscious and organic food and drinks, as well as local selections and imports with story, and goods that give. Additionally, locations can ideally hold gatherings such as workshops, guided discussions, collective circle meetups, wellness programming, cooking classes, arts events (music, poetry, painting), entrepreneurial incubators, solution dinners, and more.
As locations expand, CoCre’s content and initiatives would play through on the ground in the cafes. Locations would sync recipes, editorial themes, programming, content, and events/workshops.
Fresh, Clean, Local Food
Specialty Beverages
Ingredients with Story
Goods that Give
Arts, Craft & Wellbeing
Experiential Programming
Shared Culture/Folklore
Sunday Family Dinners
Gatherings & Conversations
Co-Creative/Collaborative Energy
Self & Community Empowerment
AUGUSTA, NJ
Feb 2023 – Nov 2024
Our northwest Garden State prototype location operated for two years, set within rolling farmlands, on a field of panoramic views that inspired peace and wide open perspective. With bright large windows, high ceilings, and an open chef’s kitchen, the space offered an extended a home-like feel for the community. With a strong focus on a diverse offering of mostly organic, plant-based foods, the location also hosted indoor and outdoor events such as live music, wellness workshops, art classes, empowerment groups, and more.
After a successful case-study, the lease was not renewed beyond its prototype phase.
PORT JERVIS, NY
Opening in 2025
The next location of CoCre Cafe holds the corner of the RH Smith Mercantile building in development in the heart of the downtown district of this mountaintop, Delaware River-side town. The matriarch space will host community, house artist and maker studios, showrooms, events, workshops, and co-working, as well as a marketplace for local goods. The surrounding region inspires an outdoor adventure lifestyle while being connected to NYC by train.