Red Silo Coffee Roasters co-owners Shelley Flood and Greg Pierce, seen in their original Arvada location, now have four spots open. (Courtesy Red Silo Coffee Roasters)
Local coffee shop chain Red Silo Coffee Roasters is opening up a new crop of shops.
The Arvada-based roastery, bakery and creamery opened its fourth location last month, in Longmont, and is planning several more spots in the Denver metro area, including a new “flagship” location in Arvada.
“Now that we have a full production, roasting and baking staff, we wanna maximize them,” said Shelley Flood, who owns the chain with Greg Pierce.
Flood said they have three styles in mind as they grow: the standard café, a drive-thru and a combo space with both.
The Red Silos in Arvada (which opened in 2018), Golden (2022) and LoHi (August of this year), are all cafés. The Longmont spot added in November is the first drive-thru.
Red Silo’s new drive-thru shop in Longmont. (Courtesy Red Silo)
Flood said Red Silo recently broke ground on a second location in Arvada, at 6950 Indiana Court.
The planned flagship will be a two-story with about 3,000 square feet on each level. A Red Silo drive-thru will take up half the bottom floor, and half the top floor will feature a sitdown breakfast concept that the pair will operate, she said.
The other units, one on each floor, will likely be sold. She anticipates opening in early 2026, nearly six years after purchasing the land in 2020.
“We’ve had a lot of fun designing the building. That’s what we do,” she said, noting both her and Pierce’s development day jobs. Pierce is the owner and president of Micro Commercial, and Flood is the director of sales and design at the firm.
A rendering of Red Silo’s planned location at 6950 Indiana Court in Arvada, which will also include space for a sit-down breakfast concept and two other operators. (Courtesy Red Silo)
Flood also hinted at using the old bricks from an actual red silo in Arvada, the inspiration for the coffee shop’s name.
“We’re trying to pay homage to west Arvada, which was a big farming community,” she said.
Red Silo also has several LOIs for additional spots around Denver, including a drive-thru/café combo in Westminster. Flood and Pierce are working with Brian Frank of Axio Commercial Real Estate to find locations.
They mostly look for previous coffee shops around 1,800 square feet. Flood said Red Silo has 55 employees total between delivery, production and operations, and it takes eight to 10 to run each store.
“There’s no number in mind (with expansion),” Flood said, noting they’ve also explored Colorado Springs and some mountain towns. “For us, it boils down to is it a right fit for our brand.”
Flood and Pierce sold coffee at the Golden farmers market before opening the inaugural brick-and-mortar location at 6590 Holman St. in Arvada in 2018. It was in a business campus that Pierce built, and the goal was to be a café just for that complex. But plans quickly changed.
“We were expecting to be this coffee shop for the campus,” Flood said. “But we developed a really loyal following.”
Shortly after, they started building out a bakery to go along with the roastery. In 2020, they started to make ice cream out of the shop as well.
“The majority of our business is done by noon, and we wanted to do something that would allow us to access another pool of potential customers,” she said of that decision.
While methodical shop expansion is the goal, Flood said they’ve had discussions about expanding more into wholesale, which makes up about 10 percent of Red Silo’s sales. They will do it all while aiming to “raise the bar” in terms of service and product.
“It’s gotta be about more than the money because the margins in this industry aren’t great,” she said.
Red Silo Coffee Roasters co-owners Shelley Flood and Greg Pierce, seen in their original Arvada location, now have four spots open. (Courtesy Red Silo Coffee Roasters)
Local coffee shop chain Red Silo Coffee Roasters is opening up a new crop of shops.
The Arvada-based roastery, bakery and creamery opened its fourth location last month, in Longmont, and is planning several more spots in the Denver metro area, including a new “flagship” location in Arvada.
“Now that we have a full production, roasting and baking staff, we wanna maximize them,” said Shelley Flood, who owns the chain with Greg Pierce.
Flood said they have three styles in mind as they grow: the standard café, a drive-thru and a combo space with both.
The Red Silos in Arvada (which opened in 2018), Golden (2022) and LoHi (August of this year), are all cafés. The Longmont spot added in November is the first drive-thru.
Red Silo’s new drive-thru shop in Longmont. (Courtesy Red Silo)
Flood said Red Silo recently broke ground on a second location in Arvada, at 6950 Indiana Court.
The planned flagship will be a two-story with about 3,000 square feet on each level. A Red Silo drive-thru will take up half the bottom floor, and half the top floor will feature a sitdown breakfast concept that the pair will operate, she said.
The other units, one on each floor, will likely be sold. She anticipates opening in early 2026, nearly six years after purchasing the land in 2020.
“We’ve had a lot of fun designing the building. That’s what we do,” she said, noting both her and Pierce’s development day jobs. Pierce is the owner and president of Micro Commercial, and Flood is the director of sales and design at the firm.
A rendering of Red Silo’s planned location at 6950 Indiana Court in Arvada, which will also include space for a sit-down breakfast concept and two other operators. (Courtesy Red Silo)
Flood also hinted at using the old bricks from an actual red silo in Arvada, the inspiration for the coffee shop’s name.
“We’re trying to pay homage to west Arvada, which was a big farming community,” she said.
Red Silo also has several LOIs for additional spots around Denver, including a drive-thru/café combo in Westminster. Flood and Pierce are working with Brian Frank of Axio Commercial Real Estate to find locations.
They mostly look for previous coffee shops around 1,800 square feet. Flood said Red Silo has 55 employees total between delivery, production and operations, and it takes eight to 10 to run each store.
“There’s no number in mind (with expansion),” Flood said, noting they’ve also explored Colorado Springs and some mountain towns. “For us, it boils down to is it a right fit for our brand.”
Flood and Pierce sold coffee at the Golden farmers market before opening the inaugural brick-and-mortar location at 6590 Holman St. in Arvada in 2018. It was in a business campus that Pierce built, and the goal was to be a café just for that complex. But plans quickly changed.
“We were expecting to be this coffee shop for the campus,” Flood said. “But we developed a really loyal following.”
Shortly after, they started building out a bakery to go along with the roastery. In 2020, they started to make ice cream out of the shop as well.
“The majority of our business is done by noon, and we wanted to do something that would allow us to access another pool of potential customers,” she said of that decision.
While methodical shop expansion is the goal, Flood said they’ve had discussions about expanding more into wholesale, which makes up about 10 percent of Red Silo’s sales. They will do it all while aiming to “raise the bar” in terms of service and product.
“It’s gotta be about more than the money because the margins in this industry aren’t great,” she said.
