Coffee and Community

The Coffee House Diaries 01.22.2002
by Jennifer Brogee
We celebrate our twentieth anniversary this year. One day in April 2003, we served our first customer in our coffee shop in downtown Lima, Ohio at the corner of Market and West Streets. The Meeting Place on Market was born.

Santa coming to The Meeting Place on Market for Downtown Holiday Fest
by Jennifer Brogee
SANTA'S COMING!
Downtown Lima Inc. is hosting our Annual Holiday Festival on Saturday, Dec. 3rd from 10am to 2pm at our member locations!
Downtown Lima Inc. is hosting our Annual Holiday Festival on Saturday, Dec. 3rd from 10am to 2pm at our member locations!

Christmas in July 2022
by Britani Ward
Santa is coming! ...and we are SO EXCITED! Join us Friday July 15th anytime from 9am to 3pm to celebrate Christmas in the middle of July! We have so much fun in store for everyone of all ages! Santa will be flying in at 10am and so much more will be happening. Like live music, snacks, specials, activities for kids...

Christmas in July this Friday!
by Jennifer Brogee
You're invited! This Friday, July 16th, 2021, 10 am - 4 pm.
All day, enjoy free bakery samples and coffee samples, free activities for the kids lik...

Have you heard our Big News?!
by Britani Ward
We have an exciting announcement! We are remodeling! We will be closed to in cafe traffic starting June 15th, but you will be able to order your fa...

Where the Coffee Shop Meets the Cubicle
by Jennifer Brogee
This article gives a good summary of the business incubator idea we have for the second floor of the Meeting Place on Market:
https://www.bloomber...

New Vision of Downtown Lima
by Jennifer Brogee
Mike Schulte, as an architecture graduate student, pulled together architecture students from Ball State University to spend a couple different wee...