A Google StreetView picture of 11 Church St., New Paltz, in September 2021. (Screen capture)
BRAND-NEW PALTZ, N.Y.— Jessica and Justin Strika are preparing a brand-new cat coffee shop at 11 Church St., set to open July 14, offering the visitors the capability to drop in for beverages while hanging around with rescued cats.
Beans Cat Cafe, according to its website at beanscatcafe.com, looks for to help with rescue cat adoptions while likewise supplying a lounge with coffee and pastries. The New Paltz coffee shop, like its antecedent in Beacon, will be divided into 2 parts, a coffee shop and a cat lounge. The cat lounge has a minimal capability and visitors can connect with cats while taking pleasure in drinks and baked products, according to the website, including that the air is managed with a high-efficiency particle air filter to keep the location hygienic.
The coffee shop side is simply that, a coffee shop.
People who go to the cat coffee shop will have the ability to adopt cats there or online through an application, the website said.
The Strikas already own and run the only cat coffee shop in the Mid-Hudson Valley, Beacon’s Beans Cat Cafe, where Jessica Strika said they have actually rescued over 450 cats with the help of the Hudson Valley Animal Rescue and Sanctuary in Poughkeepsie. She said that at the brand-new place in the previous home of Lagusta’s Luscious Commissary, they intend to help with the adoption of over 250 cats in their very first year.
Jessica Strika said that she expects facing the concern of university student from close-by SUNY New Paltz going to the coffee shop however not having the ability to adopt any felines since they reside in a dormitory or impermanent residence. Even so, she said, there ought to suffice individuals from surrounding neighborhoods and towns to continue to drive adoptions.
The Strikas opened Beans Cat Cafe in 2020, and Jessica Strika said in New Paltz the experience won’t alter quite. The cat coffee shop will continue to take consultations and walk-in clients and serve food at the exact same costs with the exact same cats from the Hudson Valley Animal Rescue and Sanctuary, she said. One distinction, she said, might be the capability.
Jessica Strika said that depending upon the fire inspectors’ decision, they might increase the variety of visitors at a time from 8 like it remains in Beacon. Their baked products service provider will continue to be The Baker’s Tale, she said.
Jessica said that she and Justin reside in Highland and at first wished to discover an area in New Paltz prior to Beacon showed more possible. She said when the chance to move into the store on Church Street opened, they took it. “We’ve been trying to get in since 2019,” she said. The Strikas got the town of New Paltz Planning Board approval on May 16 for the cat coffee shop and have actually been preparing to open considering that.
Jessica Strika said that she has actually seen a great deal of neighborhood interest and believes their opening day ought to have a good turnout.
For more info about the approaching coffee shop check out or https://www.facebook.com/beanscatcafe/.
