Tea shop to share premises with real estate firm
A specialty tea company is opening its flagship store together with a real estate agency in Manhattan. Tavalon will open its tea bar in October right next to the offices of Blu Realty Group. Businesses will be separated by a glass wall, but customers of both will be able to interact and enjoy tea while browsing through real estate offers. According to Tavalon, the Riverside Boulevard, where the company will open the tea store, has an untapped client base and is short on basic amenities like coffee shops, restaurants and grocery stores. The combination real estate office and tea cafe is to be called Blu Cafe by Tavalon. Tavalon Tea had a retail store in Union Square, in lower Manhattan, until 2009.