<\/p>\n
Locals playing UNO at Austin’s Coffee’s RIP party on Saturday night.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Houda Eletr<\/p>\n
Loved by UCF students and locals\u00a0\u2014 Winter Park\u2019s Austin\u2019s Coffee held a costume party with live DJ performances on Saturday at 6 p.m., in memory of the original location at 929 W. Fairbanks Ave. being closed down.<\/p>\n
The city of Winter Park purchased the lot that Austin\u2019s and other businesses stand on. Forcing Austin\u2019s to relocate to their new, larger location about a mile away.<\/p>\n
UCF students find themselves saddened by the news, feeling that the original building held character and soul.<\/p>\n
Trey Hibbard, first-year graduate student and statistics major, as well as the first DJ of the night, said that one of his favorite memories at Austin\u2019s was when a barista once let him play music on the caf\u00e9\u2019s speakers.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was playing like really loud trap EDM at 3 p.m., it was just really funny, and I was so happy I got to do that,\u201d Hibbard said.<\/p>\n
Mi-Hwa Chang, senior history major, said that the vibe at Austin\u2019s is a perfect space for wanting to get homework done. She said that it\u2019s not too overstimulating and not too stuck up \u2014 it\u2019s just right.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a historic property, and it\u2019s been around for a long time,\u201d Chang said. \u201cAs a historian, I\u2019d hate to see this building go.\u201d<\/p>\n
The floor in front of the stage was filled with locals in costumes \u2014 including a Mandalorian, Springtrap, clowns and foxes \u2014 dancing tightly under red lights.<\/p>\n
Kavan Paul, junior information technology major, said that he had been coming to Austin\u2019s since moving to Orlando from Texas to attend UCF.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s always been really nice to just kinda go to Austin\u2019s when you and your friends don\u2019t know what to do on a random afternoon,\u201d Paul said. \u201cYou know, it\u2019s kinda like, \u2018Oh, what do you wanna do?\u2019 \u2018Oh, I don\u2019t know, let’s go to Austin\u2019s Coffee.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
As new DJs took the stage, the coffee shop overflowed with locals crowding the sidewalks and front patio. Between sets, a barista often shouted for people to buy everything in the caf\u00e9, saying they wouldn\u2019t be keeping any of the leftovers.<\/p>\n
Matthew Ghassemi, senior finance major, said that his first time a few years ago was a bad date, but ever since then, it\u2019s been him and his friends making better memories at Austin\u2019s, especially at their weekly jazz nights.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs all things must pass, I\u2019m glad they\u2019re able to relocate in Winter Park and continue to serve the people,\u201d Ghassemi said. \u201cIt\u2019s like one of the few places that\u2019s very chill and isn\u2019t a bar that my friends and I can hang out.\u201d<\/p>\n
Gabriel Reyes, freshman mechanical engineering major, only recently discovered Austin\u2019s coffee in October. Reyes said that Fairbanks could use some remodeling, expressing his concern for accidents at the traffic light in 1792 on Fairbanks Avenue. \u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cShowing up today was so nice, I had a lot of fun,\u201d Reyes said. \u201cIt was just me and three random dudes dancing that started the floor.\u201d<\/p>\n
Recollecting memories and recreating photos, locals began dispersing as the night came to an end around 1 a.m. UCF students looked forward to the memories that are waiting to be made at Austin’s new location, set to open on Saturday.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe one good thing I can think of that comes with this is we\u2019ve realized that communities don\u2019t go with buildings and places, they go with the people,\u201d Paul said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Locals playing UNO at Austin’s Coffee’s RIP party on Saturday night.\u00a0 Houda Eletr Loved by UCF students and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23473,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[1209,18031,1210,139,141,140],"class_list":["post-23472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-culture","tag-food_and_drink","tag-life","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}