Coffee Shop To Open This Week In Former Historic Bank Building In Hoboken

HOBOKEN, NJ — A small, growing chain of New Jersey coffee and dessert shops will open its second Hoboken location this week, they said.

Forum Coffee, which has a location on 123 Washington St., will move into a former bank and newspaper office at the northern end of the street.

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Forum said it will open its newest location at 1400 Washington St. this Wednesday.

The limestone-clad Hoboken Trust Company bank building at Washington and 14th streets, in uptown Hoboken, opened in 1903, according to the Hoboken Historical Museum.

Around 1997, the building at 1400 Washington St. was sold to the Hudson Reporter, a weekly newspaper group that had previously occupied space across the street in a basement.

In spring 2016, the newspaper chain moved to an office in Bayonne, and the building was sold to Thor Equities.

An exercise studio, Soul Cycle, moved in and sold juice drinks in front. Soul Cycle is still there.

But Forum Coffee will share the space, they said.

Exercise And Coffee

"Soul Cycle will still be there," the Forum owners told Patch in May. "We'll be right up front. It's the old Juice Press space. We'll have outdoor seating on both sides of the building and partnering with Soul Cycle so riders can preorder their organic Forum Freeze or Protein Freeze (Our take on smoothie protein shakes) and have them waiting when they get out of class."

The Forum Coffee brand is rapidly growing, with four other stores having recently opened in North Jersey, outside of Hoboken.

Numerous other restaurants have recently opened or plan to open near Hoboken. READ MORE: 5 Restaurants That Opened In June In North Jersey

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