Assembly Park\u2019s mixed-use development opened in 2023 and has slowly begun filling with tenants since then.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy partners and I and our families are proud residents of Collin County,\u201d said Jacob Cox, co-founder and CEO of Blender Brands. \u201cWe\u2019re pleased to bring these three original concepts to East Plano where we can welcome apartment residents, office tenants, students, families, and locals alike \u2014 inspired by our passion, upbringing and travels.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Blender Brands team \u2014lead by Cox, Danny Wilson, John \u201cJ.R.\u201d Munoz and Ray Risley \u2014 have partnered with a variety of Texas businesses to bring several businesses to life.<\/p>\n Cliff Coffee brings handcrafted espresso and tea drinks, scratch-made pastries, tacos, breads and desserts to the Southwestern-themed lounge. And there are lots of local touches. Ice cream from Tongue in Cheek in Richardson. Drinks made with Lemma Roasters coffee in Lewisville. Bear Naked Honey made in Allen. Mill-King dairy from Waco.<\/p>\n \u201cFrom coffee beans to honey, milk, and ice cream \u2014 everything we can source locally, we do,\u201d Cox said.<\/p>\n The shop is open Monday through Friday from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m., and Saturday and Sunday from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m.<\/p>\n Blender Brands isn\u2019t stopping there. Casual American bar and grill Assembly Icehouse is opening on Oct. 23 with live music, game watching and a spacious patio.<\/p>\n On Nov. 2, Tacoro, a full-service taqueria and bar, is set to open.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While Cliff Coffee opened earlier this month, Assembly Icehouse is set to open on Oct. 23 and Tacoro…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1075,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[160,162,161],"class_list":{"0":"post-1074","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-plano","8":"tag-plano","9":"tag-plano-headlines","10":"tag-plano-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1074\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Photo-Oct-02-2025-1-57-19-PM.jpg\")
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