Coffy Town Storefront — Cafe / Community
Chi City Cafe
Owned by Dontrella McDonald
Cafe / Community
About Chi City Cafe
Chi City Cafe is exploring an Atlanta-area home for coffee, community events and youth workforce development. The proposed campus is an early vision, not an announced opening or approved construction plan.
How the room will feel when the doors open
Interior Vision
A 1,000 square foot concept layout — customer entrance and pickup up front, the roasting area and coffee prep in the heart of the room, and shipping and storage behind the scenes. Red-and-black art lines the walls: the piece is Casually, from the HIP Art Gallery, carried through the whole room from the counter to the roaster.
A call for land, legacy, and youth self-sufficiency
The Living Blueprint
Healing requires expression. Expression demands opportunity. And opportunity without ownership leaves our youth vulnerable to the whims of an indifferent system.
Healing cannot remain theoretical. It must have a zip code — a physical address, a front porch, a patch of earth where a young person can plant both a seed and a future.
Holter Intellectual Property, Inc. — in partnership with the Voices of Foster Care initiative — is advancing a concrete, shovel-ready initiative: the HIP Community Workforce Development Campus, anchored by the Chi City Cafe Workforce Development Program.
This is not a traditional real estate venture. It is a public-purpose civic partnership that transforms one to two acres of underutilized land into an engine of entrepreneurship, creative wellness, and intergenerational independence — built fast, built beautiful, and built without heavy brick-and-mortar debt.
Listen: The Living Blueprint
Our work & the vision ahead
From community to campus
Participant interview · 1 of 4
Dylan — Electric Church
An excerpt from the work at Electric Church. Interview footage with unfinished sound and color.
The café
A welcoming coffee counter with a proposed drive-thru window and space to gather.
The community stage
A covered place for local artists, open mics, workshops, and neighborhood events.
The learning space
An office and classroom for mentoring, career readiness, and youth programming.
This is an early concept. Location, design, funding, permits, and construction plans are still under exploration; no opening date has been announced.
By Dontrella McDonald
The Emotional Business Plan
Open the bookA Transit System of Healing — Chi City Cafe's CEO treats emotional intelligence as a core operating system for work and life. Illustrated and edited by Jessica Holter.
Services & Products
- Coffee and café service (planned)
- Community events and open mic nights (proposed)
- Youth workforce development (proposed)
- Career-readiness classes and mentoring (proposed)
Artwork & videos sized for every post
Media Kit
Artwork and videos made for Chi City Cafe — banners, social posts, Stories and Reels sizes, and web-ready videos. Press a download button to save any piece. Adobe Stock items are licensed by HIP.
CCC Roasters Foster Care Program banner
The Chi City Cafe roasters foster care program banner, sized for a page banner, social posts, and Stories or Reels.
“It’s Coffy Time”
The “It’s Coffy Time” artwork, sized for a page banner, social posts, and Stories or Reels.
Adobe Stock coffee photo
The licensed Adobe Stock coffee photograph, sized for a page banner, social posts, and Stories or Reels.
Licensed by HIP
Chi City Cafe video
The custom Chi City Cafe video, compressed to load fast on the web.
Chi City Cafe video — October 3
The October 3 Chi City Cafe video, compressed to load fast on the web.
Adobe Stock clip 1
Licensed Adobe Stock motion clip, converted to a fast-loading web MP4.
Licensed by HIP
Adobe Stock clip 2
Licensed Adobe Stock motion clip, converted to a fast-loading web MP4.
Licensed by HIP
Adobe Stock clip 3
Licensed Adobe Stock motion clip, converted to a fast-loading web MP4.
Licensed by HIP
Tenant since opening day