Spreading the gospel with a side of ice cream

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Boyer’s Coffee and Ice Cream is moving around the corner. (Photo by Michael Thompson.)

A West End ice cream shop is shacking up with a religious organization.

Boyer’s Coffee and Ice Cream is moving out of its Patterson Avenue location and subleasing a new storefront from the Richmond Center for Christian Study at 5808 Grove Ave.

Boyer’s will occupy 1,200 square feet of the center’s new 6,000-square-foot home after vacating 5720 Patterson Ave.

Richmond Center for Christian Study signed a three-year lease for the space in January. The nonprofit hopes to open a new retail and community space at the Libbie and Grove spot in July.

“(Boyer’s) will certainly provide a real draw among students and the community, though people are certainly welcome to just come and get ice cream if they want,” wrote Chris Daniel, executive director of the Richmond Center for Christian Study, in an email.

The center currently shares an office with All Saints Reformed Presbyterian Church at 3000 Grove Ave. Its new location will give it room to sell books and videos, as well as host speakers and discussions.

The new space was formerly home to Elephant’s Toe, and The Arcade before that.

Boyer’s current 900-square-foot shop on Patterson will remain open until the move is completed. Owner John Boyer said he hopes to reopen by June. Boyer and his wife, Kimberly, launched the ice cream and coffee spot in 2008.

Daniel contacted Boyer’s late last year about sharing a space. At the time, Boyer and his wife were thinking about closing the business. Both work full time and care for their son, Taylor, who has health problems.

The Boyers now plan to keep the business open but eventually sell 75 percent of it to their children Katey, Corey and Caleb and their spouses. For now, Caleb Boyer is running the store.

“The kids saw an opportunity there,” John Boyer said of the offer for the new space. The children “approached us and said, ‘You keep the process going to move, and we’ll form a corporation and take over.’”

Boyer said that stretch of Grove Avenue’s proximity to the University of Richmond, schools such as St. Catherine’s and St. Christopher’s and retailers will be good for business.

“It’s almost like a mini-Cary Street,” he said.

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Boyer’s Coffee and Ice Cream is moving around the corner. (Photo by Michael Thompson.)

A West End ice cream shop is shacking up with a religious organization.

Boyer’s Coffee and Ice Cream is moving out of its Patterson Avenue location and subleasing a new storefront from the Richmond Center for Christian Study at 5808 Grove Ave.

Boyer’s will occupy 1,200 square feet of the center’s new 6,000-square-foot home after vacating 5720 Patterson Ave.

Richmond Center for Christian Study signed a three-year lease for the space in January. The nonprofit hopes to open a new retail and community space at the Libbie and Grove spot in July.

“(Boyer’s) will certainly provide a real draw among students and the community, though people are certainly welcome to just come and get ice cream if they want,” wrote Chris Daniel, executive director of the Richmond Center for Christian Study, in an email.

The center currently shares an office with All Saints Reformed Presbyterian Church at 3000 Grove Ave. Its new location will give it room to sell books and videos, as well as host speakers and discussions.

The new space was formerly home to Elephant’s Toe, and The Arcade before that.

Boyer’s current 900-square-foot shop on Patterson will remain open until the move is completed. Owner John Boyer said he hopes to reopen by June. Boyer and his wife, Kimberly, launched the ice cream and coffee spot in 2008.

Daniel contacted Boyer’s late last year about sharing a space. At the time, Boyer and his wife were thinking about closing the business. Both work full time and care for their son, Taylor, who has health problems.

The Boyers now plan to keep the business open but eventually sell 75 percent of it to their children Katey, Corey and Caleb and their spouses. For now, Caleb Boyer is running the store.

“The kids saw an opportunity there,” John Boyer said of the offer for the new space. The children “approached us and said, ‘You keep the process going to move, and we’ll form a corporation and take over.’”

Boyer said that stretch of Grove Avenue’s proximity to the University of Richmond, schools such as St. Catherine’s and St. Christopher’s and retailers will be good for business.

“It’s almost like a mini-Cary Street,” he said.

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