The new occupant of the former Reverie Coffee Roasters space won’t be serving coffee

This time three years ago, Stems owners Cheryl and Jack Dixon moved their floral shop from Central and Woodlawn to Cambridge Market at 21st and Webb Road — a spot they’ve liked quite a bit.

However, the 2,000 square feet they have is not nearly enough, so they’re doubling their space with a move to the former Reverie Coffee Roasters space at 2611 E. Douglas

“My wedding business is just so big, I gotta have more room,” Cheryl Dixon says.

She says she likes that there’s a private upstairs space where she can meet with brides and have table displays of rental items they can use for their weddings.

“I play Vanna White,” Dixon says. “It will be nice and big and out of the way.”

She says it will be a private area for people buying funeral flowers as well.

Currently, Dixon says she has her shop space along with several storage units.

“Now I can get everything under one roof . . . and not have to run all over town trying to find what I’m trying to find.”

Dixon says she also likes that the shop will be in the Douglas Design District, and she plans to get on the Final Friday circuit since she has plenty of wall space to hang art.

Stems also will now sell art, too. Its retail area, which will be new for the shop, will include local candles, pottery, honey, jewelry and “just all kinds of fun, different stuff.”

“It’s going to be really fun.”

Bradley Tidemann of J.P. Weigand & Sons and Ted Branson of Landmark Commercial Real Estate handled the deal.

Stems will move in the week after Mother’s Day.

Dixon likes that the new space has red brick walls, barn-wood floors and original tin ceilings. She likes it so much, she doubts she’ll ever move again.

“No, I don’t think so.”

This story was originally published April 2, 2019 at 5:30 PM.