Have you heard the news?! 

There's going to be a new LASATERS® Coffee & Tea Drive-Thru/Cafe in Cleveland Tennessee!

Check out the development where it's being built here.

From the developer's website:

Lasaters Corporation has approved another LASATERS® Coffee & Tea franchised location to be opened in Cleveland, Tennessee in the new Spring Creek Development, 25th Street/Apd 40.

Local franchisee HAZ llc., operated by Zack & Heather Gates of Cleveland, will be opening their second location around September 2012. Currently, the Gates own and operate a coffee kiosk inside the Cleveland Bradley Public Library in downtown Cleveland, which opened in the Fall of 2011.

The new Spring Creek location is a stand-alone location featuring a full cafe with a drive-thru, an outdoor seating area and a comfortable lounge interior with a fireplace setting.  Free wireless internet will also be available.   Al Shumaker is general contractor of the new coffeehouse, with Doug Caywood of Downtown Design Studios as architect.
Stan and Brenda Lawson, Spring Creek Developers, welcomed the Gates and the Lasaters group to Spring Creek, which is this area’s first lifestyle neighborhood. The 90+ acre site includes 10 acres of retail, an 8 acre business park, and over 46 acres of residential. Across the street, The Retreat at Spring Creek features a 199 unit luxury gated apartment community with 120 more units now under construction.

Lawson said the “lifestyle concept is new to this area, but it is fast becoming a popular concept where people can actually live, work, dine, shop and enjoy the outdoors all in their own neighborhood.” Begun in 2007, Spring Creek now houses an 18,000 square foot Town Center with specialty shops downstairs and loft living on the second level. A new residential neighborhood and a new gated area called Rose Hill is now under construction by Magnolia Custom Homes, LLC. Pocket parks and green space is located throughout the neighborhood, which also borders an extended portion of the Cleveland Greenways System traveling underneath 25th street, through Lee University campus, historic downtown and to the Museum Center @ 5ive Points.
Lawson said “since our beginning, a coffee shop has been a priority for us because of our traffic count and the fact there is no specialty coffee shops near our heavily populated neighborhoods. Brenda and I feel Lasaters ® Coffee & Tea is the perfect fit for what we have been creating here at Spring Creek. We are impressed with the owners and the quality product they offer to customers.”

Zack and Heather Gates are owners of the local operations. The couple, married for 13 years in July, are parents of Chloe, 7, and Paul 5. Gates retired from the military in September 2010 after being assigned to the 82nd Airborne Div, 101st Airborne Div and other units. He and his wife had to choose a different career after as decision from a medical condition that started while serving in Afghanistan. LASATERS ® offered the challenge and stability needed to seek out a successful life. When the new Spring Creek coffeehouse is complete this Fall, the couple will pursue another location in the future, possibly in Chattanooga.

Mat Lasater, CEO of Lasaters Corporation said: "From our first trip to Guatemala a couple of years ago, Zack and I got to experience what it would be like working together, which was an all-around wonderful trip!  Zack and Heather are an amazing team and are a good example of what a great family unit can do when working together towards a common goal.  We look forward to working closely with them over the next few months as they prepare to open the Spring Creek location, which will be the very best coffeehouse in southern Tennessee.”

HAZ LLC opened a LASATERS® Coffee & Tea coffee kiosk at the Bradley County Cleveland Public Library in September 2011.  Their hours of operation and store information can be found at www.facebook.com/Lasaters.Cleveland.   For more information on LASATERS® Coffee & Tea visit www.LasatersCoffee.com or call (888) 874-8616

Stay tuned to our main facebook page for more info! You can also *Like* this new location on facebook here.

Have a great day!