Kindred Coffee Closes Jamestown Storefront, Owners Seek New Location

Kindred Coffee & Kitchen, the mother-and-son café that Marsha and Greg Pittman built from a Kickstarter campaign into a 4.7-star downtown fixture, has closed its 116 E. Main St. storefront as the pair search for a new Jamestown home.

The café opened in the former Miller's Market space on East Main Street after their crowdfunding campaign exceeded its target by 101 percent, a community vote of confidence that helped transform an online coffee concept into a full-service counter shop known for its rotating specialty drinks, scratch-made food, and a Tuesday-through-Saturday schedule that drew remote workers, morning commuters, and weekend regulars to Jamestown's small downtown corridor.

Greg Pittman, who also mounted a write-in mayoral campaign in Jamestown reflecting his deep investment in the town, and his mother Marsha built Kindred on an explicit community mission: the shop's name references being "family, closely connected, kin, together." That ethos drew a consistent local customer base and turned the Main Street address into something closer to a neighborhood gathering room than a typical café stop.

The shutdown removes a daytime anchor from a downtown district with little commercial redundancy. A café sustaining regular morning and midday foot traffic feeds passing customers to neighboring merchants; when that rhythm stops, the effect ripples down the block. Independent operators across the Triad have pointed to lease costs, rising ingredient prices, and staffing as forces compressing margins regardless of sales volume, and the Pittmans' decision to seek a new location rather than exit the market altogether suggests an operational mismatch with the current space rather than a collapse in demand.

Securing a replacement site means navigating Guilford County's commercial leasing market, completing any necessary build-out and permitting, and rebuilding the operational calendar that made 116 E. Main St. a fixture for more than three years. Customers following the search can track announcements at @kindredcoffeenc on Facebook and Instagram, or reach the owners directly at (336) 886-9571.