River Maiden Coffee Confirms Return to Downtown Vancouver

After Being Displaced by the Indoor Market Closure on 9/30/07, River Maiden Will Return

(Vancouver, WA November 19, 2008): On Monday, November 17, 2008, River Maiden Artisan Coffee signed a lease for the commercial property at 701 Main Street (the Centurion Building) to re-open it’s second café. Located at the corner of 7th & Main, the location is just three blocks east of its original location of 7th & Esther (inside the former Indoor Farmers Market). That highly successful original downtown location was closed on September 30th, 2007, by the City’s decision not to sign any Vancouver Farmers Market tenants when the VFM forfeited it’s obligations to the indoor space at Esther
Short Commons.

“It’s been a long road to return downtown, so we’re very excited to finally have found a suitable location” said Melissa Layman, owner of River Maiden Artisan Coffee. “The City’s decision not to sign the tenants was a huge setback. We’d been so successful, it was difficult to be forced to just walk away. Plus, we’ve had so many requests from our former patrons to return, we’re happy we can make good on our commitment to do so”.

The plan is to open in February or March of 2009 after the necessary build out is completed. This will be River Maiden’s second location. It’s flagship coffeehouse on Devine Road in the ‘Heights’ will still continue to serve it’s customers as always. “Our original location here in the ‘Heights’ has really become a center of the neighborhood, so we’ll continue to keep this one – for sure. It’s just three blocks from our home”.

River Maiden began on Mother’s Day 2002 as a jewelry booth at Vancouver Farmers Market. In 2005, River Maiden expanded to artisan coffee, opening two locations: September 17th, 2005, at the (now defunct) Indoor Farmers Market and December 6th, 2005, in the ‘Heights’ on Devine Road. River Maiden made nationally headlines in June 2008 when it offered the world’s finest coffee (Panama Esmeralda) for $15 a cup on it’s famed Clover Fresh Press. River Maiden’s coffeehouse on Devine continues to be the only coffeehouse in the world to have the rare Clover paired with Stumptown Coffee.