Dutch Bros Coffee is up to at least 14 area locations, including its first in Old Arlington, as it prepares to develop a drive-thru kiosk at the site of the relocated Arlington Flower Shop.
A developer for the Arizona-based coffee kiosk chain bought the florist shop at 7130 Merrill Road where it intends to redevelop the 61-year-old property.
A sign at the property says the flower shop moved March 1, and an associate confirmed March 10 that Arlington Flower Shop moved to 987 University Blvd N. in College Park, the former Town & Country Shopping Center at northeast Arlington Expressway and University Boulevard. JWB Real Estate Capital owns College Park, where leasing is handled by The Urban Division of Colliers.
Flower shop workers welcomed visitors March 11 as they filled orders and continued to set up and arrange the 1.981-square-foot store, which is near a Winn-Dixie grocery store and in a courtyard near Arlington Bait & Tackle…