The Oswego Village Board recently approved annexation, rezoning and a special use for a Dutch Bros Coffee drive-thru coffee shop on a site near Route 34 and Ogden Falls Boulevard.
Quattro Development LLC had requested annexation and rezoning for two parcels located on the south side of Route 34 just east of the intersection with Ogden Falls Boulevard for a Dutch Bros Coffee and a commercial building.
The property is currently vacant and in unincorporated Kendall County.
Roughly one-third of the site, located furthest west, was annexed into the village in 1988 and is zoned as a B-1 Regional Business District. The developer was seeking to annex the remaining two parcels, village officials said.
Property annexed to the village is automatically classified with a single-family residential zoning. However, the developer had petitioned the village to rezone the two parcels to the B-1 Regional Business District designation, which is consistent with the village’s comprehensive plan, village officials said.
The furthest west lot is about one acre and would be the first lot to get developed. It is proposed that the Dutch Bros Coffee shop measuring 1,193 square feet would go on that site, officials said. The Dutch Bros Coffee is proposed as a drive-thru only. While there would be no interior accommodations for patrons, the business would provide walk-up service. There would be outdoor seating during the warm weather, company representatives said.
Dutch Bros started as a pushcart coffee operation in downtown Grants Pass, Oregon, in 1992, according to the company’s website. Franchising began in Oregon in 2000 and the company now has more than 1,000 locations across the country selling coffee, smoothies, energy drinks and sodas.
Trustee Rachelle Koenig said she’s elated Dutch Bros Coffee is coming to Oswego.
“I have traveled to Arizona, California and Colorado. I have had to take detours 45 minutes away with my children in order to find the Dutch Bros. I cannot tell you how excited my children are that this is coming,” Koenig said.
“It really truly is an experience. … I’m super-excited about this,” Koenig said.
Representing Quattro Development at the recent Oswego Village Board meeting was Mike Haigh, director of Planning and Development for the company.
“We’re excited to bring this,” Haigh said.
Haig said the tentative plan is to open the Oswego Dutch Bros site in late fall of this year.
“I am really excited. Thank you for choosing Oswego and investing in Oswego,” Oswego Village President Ryan Kauffman said.
Linda Girardi is a freelance reporter for The Beacon-News.
