A new coffee shop with a familiar name is now open inside a half-century old downtown Charleston building . Sightsee Shop debuted in July, serving coffee and baked goods in the space once occupied by Hampton Pharmacy. In addition to crafting some of the best espresso drinks in Charleston, the café, owned by Allyson Sutton and Joel Sadler, sells bags, books, prints, shirts, hats and other goods produced by mostly woman-owned brands.
The business has been serving Charleston for more than five years; first as a pop-up, and later inside a 450-square-foot space on Line Street. That small size eventually stalled growth, Sutton and Sadler said. 82 years later, coffee, retailers come to vacant pharmacy near Hampton Park They were considering their next move when a member of Charleston’s North Central community told them about an opening inside a building on the corner of Rutledge and Cleveland avenues, near Hampton Park.
“We, like many people, had walked by this particular space for years,” Sadler said. “It became a possibility for us.” Coffee beans are on hand to grind to prepare fresh beverages to customers at Sightsee Shop, Thursday, Aug.
29, 2024, in Charleston. Sightsee Shop shares the building with a design studio, women’s clothing store and other businesses. Outlines of the old Hampton Pharmacy sign can still be seen along the brick siding, which the owner maintained in addition to the original custom octagon-shaped windows and iron bars shaped like the Caduceus .
