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I heard the Jumping Bean coffee drivethrough is leaving the Summerfi eld Square shopping center on U.S. 220 – is that true?

We reached out to Photo by Chris Burritt/NWO Kevin Murray, Jumping Bean owner Kevin Murray hands a cup of coffee to a customer as he prepares to relocate owner of the his business from Summerfi eld Square shopping center after Kotis Properties, the center’s owner, Jumping Bean, and he confirmed reports of his terminated his lease, effective May 30. “If they want me to go, you know what, I will fi nd another place,” Murray said earlier this week. departure from the shopping center are true. storefront for a coffee shop. The opened Clouds Tobacco. After more than nine years selling coffee, fruit smoothies and pastries through a sliding window, Murray said vacant space is the last unit on the end of the building occupied by Dollar General and Golden Antiques and In recent months, Murray said one of his employees suggested he open a traditional coffee shop, but he preferred to he plans to vacate the U.S. 220 shop- Treasures, and sits beside the recently ...continued on p. 26 ping center by the end of May.

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