Brickscape Café Is Heaven for LEGO Lovers

Longmont’s new Brickscape Cafe is a LEGO paradise — and as one might imagine from a store devoted to one of the oldest and best toy lines in recent memory, it’s still building itself, brick by brick.

Owner Billie Abbitt opened the store in March at the Old Town Marketplace in Longmont. Despite the name, it’s not yet a cafe, but it’s a retail wonderland devoted to LEGO: new and used sets (both on the market and retired), minifigs and fun little things such as LEGO earrings. It also offers Colorado-based sodas, mocktails and even non-alcoholic beer.

Abbitt does have plans to add coffee to Brickscape Cafe; in his twenties, he owned a successful coffee shop in Gainesville, Florida. “It had an amazing community that built up around it,” Abbitt recalls. The coffee shop was situated…