Baker City’s Coffee Corral will be opening a second location in mid to late June.

Owner Kris Barr, 70, opened the Coffee Corral in 2003 at the northwest corner of Campbell and Grove streets, near Geiser-Pollman Park.

After 17 years of business she will have a second shop several blocks to the east, on the south side of Campbell Street just west of Oak Street.

“It’s going to be a lot bigger than this one,” Barr said of the new location.

She plans to operate both establishments.

In the beginning, Barr and a friend decided to open a coffee shop together and rented the former gas station at Campbell and Grove that had been empty for years.

“It was the most fun ever,” Barr said.

For the first three years, she and her partner operated the coffee shop until her partner moved away and Barr bought her half of the business.

She operated it alone for 11 years until her son and daughter-in-law, Drew and Christa Barr, bought half of the business.

They will help manage both the current and the new Coffee Corral locations.

The second location will have a walk up window, a sit down area with a fireplace facing outside and another facing inside, and a drive through.

The property has been vacant for many years. Barr said she didn’t bid on the lot initially because the Oregon Department of Transportation wasn’t going to allow curb cuts for vehicle access to a drive through..

But after learning from state officials that curb cuts would be allowed, she decided to buy the property.

She sold parts of the parcel that she doesn’t need for the new Coffee Corral.

“It’s going to be nice,” she said. “My favorite thing — it’s going to have a view of the Elkhorn Mountains.”

Salmon Creek Builders Inc. is doing construction and Barr said they will begin next week.

They will be hiring employees for the new location.

Barr sells coffee to other coffee shops in Pendleton, John Day, Prairie City, and other locations and will continue to do so.

Barr moved to Baker City when she was a teenager and graduated from Baker High School. She grew up in Iowa, moved to the East Coast in the New York and Long Island area, then to the West.

Her family — her maiden name is Thomas — owns the Thomas Angus Ranch in Baker Valley.