EDWARDSVILLE, Ill. — A local coffee shop chain will open its third location next week, in a busy shopping area that currently has more national chains than local options for coffee.
Goshen Coffee Roasters, headquartered in Edwardsville, will open a drive-thru coffee shop at 1 Junction Drive in Glen Carbon, across the street from busy shopping centers anchored by Walmart, Aldi and Home Depot.
The opening of the new coffee shop is scheduled for May 17, but that is dependent on weather over the next week, said one of the coffee wholesaler’s co-owners, CEO Jennifer Hughey. She owns Goshen with her husband, Mike Bergen; her sister, Julie Beard; and her sister’s husband, Jay Beard, who acquired the coffee roasting business more than a decade ago from its founder, Matt Herren…