​Honeygrow Leasing Former Starbucks Space At Doylestown’s Barn Plaza

DOYLESTOWN TOWNSHIP, PA — Honeygrow, which announced last week its plans to open at the Barn Plaza later this year, will be moving into the former Starbucks space at the northern end of the shopping center.

The Philadelphia-based restaurant chain has leased 2,300 square feet in the shopping center next to Piccola Trattoria, according to Brixmor's site plan.

The restaurant is hoping to open sometime this summer

The eatery is known for its wholesome, simple, and made-to-order stir-fries, salads, and honey bars.

Honeygrow features a menu of five year-round stir-fries and six healthy salads. Create-Your-Own options are also available. There's also a lifestyle menu of featured dishes that are paleo, keto, vegan, high in protein, or meet Whole 30 standards.

The restaurant also offers signature honey bars, a sweet dessert using fresh fruit, and three kinds of flavored honey. All honey bars can be customized.

The Doylestown location will be the third in Bucks County for honeygrow, which was founded in 2012 and has restaurants in Quakertown and Middletown Township.

Meanwhile, construction continues at the shopping center on the new Whole Foods Store and the Barnes & Noble Store at the site of the former Marshall’s and Home Goods store.

The two new stores are expected to open sometime this year at the heart of the shopping center located on Route 611 north of Almshouse Road.

Looking ahead, shopping center owner Brixmor has announced plans to redevelop the former Regal Cinema and the closed Applebee’s restaurant with mixed-use restaurant, retail and medical office uses.

The Doylestown Township Zoning Hearing Board heard Brixmor’s plans in January for the redevelopment project and will be issuing its decision later this month. If the center secures the zoning relief it needs, it will be submitting land development plans to the township for review and consideration.

Plans include the demolition of the former movie theater and its landmark silo-type towers. The cinema would be replaced by three new buildings housing restaurant, retail and medical office uses.

The plan also includes the demolition of the former Applebees restaurant, which closed last year. It would be replaced by a new 5,000-square-foot building housing restaurant and retail space.

The Barn Plaza is owned and managed by the Brixmor Property Group.