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The space of a longtime former Fort Myers pharmacy has been made over into a place serving only one kind of drug: caffeine.

Take Two Coffee, not even a year old, has moved to 3594 Broadway Ave., just south of the corner of Carrell Road and across the street from St. Michael Lutheran Church, from where owner Caleb MacPherson hopes to have something he didn’t have at the original location — a built-in client base.

At the previous location off Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, MacPherson said he was having trouble getting drive-by traffic to stop.

“The main drag here, there’s so much going on,” MacPherson said. “There’s a preschool next door. We’ve got St. Michael across the street. They alone have 120 people on staff. There are a lot of offices and homes near here.”

MacPherson has been roasting his own coffee for more than a decade. The official business launched just two years ago — in a friend’s backyard. It opened its first location April 20 of last year before relocating to the Broadway location earlier this month.

This week, the featured beans are from El Salvador. The Mapache Estate has flavors of “a rich-mouth feel, milk chocolate, hazelnut and orange blossom.”

MacPherson said he sources coffee beans worldwide.

“We’re trying to get coffee fresh off the boat as possible,” he said. “And so right now, we have coffee from El Salvador, Colombia, Brazil, Rwanda. We actually have brand new coffees arriving this week. We’ll have the sample roast to choose new coffees. And then from there, I’ll get a new lineup for the summer.”

MacPherson and his business partner Hunter Keslar hope the new shop will appeal to both destination coffee drinkers, nearby neighbors and the McGregor Boulevard-to-U.S. 41 corridor.

Cups of coffee start at $3.50 and range up to $5. The coffee is roasted weekly, and the donuts are made daily.

Take Two Coffee is open 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. every day but Tuesday.

MacPherson described himself as an avid coffee drinker. He drinks at least a cup a day and sometimes as many as 14 cups.

“Obviously I love coffee,” MacPherson said. “I love the vibe itself. But more than that I love the community aspect of it. Where you can go to a coffee shop and see all different walks of life. Different religions, different political beliefs and ethnicities, and they all somehow get along.

“It breaks down walls.”

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