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Our Spot Coffee & Goods—the outright innovative coffee pop-up that has seen residencies at Noble Rotisserie, followed by one at Liv’s, another at Wine on 2nd, and now currently at Let’s Yolk About It—has finally reached the goal owners Chris and Ali McColl have been trying to score across the past three years: a brick-and-mortar.

That next chapter arrives at 2221 Palo Verde Ave., where Our Spot will open its first formal shop. (And yes, it is inside a now-shuttered Starbucks, making the move-in all the more locally sweet.) It is a milestone that signals not simply expansion, but the end of a long period of proving that a concept built through residencies can become something lasting.

For Chris, Our Spot Coffee & Goods has always existed with a kind of deliberate impermanence—an idea moving from counter to counter, neighborhood to neighborhood, building its following one residency at a time while quietly refining what coffee in Long Beach could become. For a business that has built itself through temporary homes, each one shaping its identity in different ways, the new address carries unusual weight: it is less a beginning than a culmination of everything Chris has tested along the way.

Written and photos by Brian Addison.

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