Coffee’s on again at 710 East 26th Street. Torrance “Pines” Green is the owner and general manager of the Fifth Coffee House, so named not only for the historic Five Points neighborhood that surrounds it, but also because it’s the fifth local establishment that Green has pioneered.
“The Fifth is the culmination of all those other spaces,” Green says. “Some were retail, some were activation spaces for young creatives to be able to get their shit off.” The Fifth is designed to be both those things, plus “implementing the lineage of the businesses that were here before us, namely Coffee at the Point and Blackberry’s,” he adds.
Blackberry’s closed in the mid-2000s and was replaced by Coffee at the Point, which shuttered two years ago. That was a blow not just to the Welton Street corridor, but to Green himself, who’d used the space often to work and hold meetings. “I grew up here,” Green says. “So when it was asked of me to consider opening this space, I did it. Jumped at it.”…