Nearly a decade after the debut of their first place, the Takoma Bev Co. in Takoma Park, restaurateurs Chris Brown, Danny Wells and Mike Rothman have inked a deal to create a new all-day cafe and restaurant in Mount Rainier.

Their restaurant group, also behind Motorkat in Takoma Park and Zinnia in Silver Spring, closed late last month on their $930,000 acquisition of a pair of buildings at 3401 and 3403 Perry St.

They plan to combine the buildings into a 3,761-square-foot space for the new establishment, with a goal of creating a spot similar to Takoma Bev, where customers can both get their morning coffee fix and meet up with friends for lunch or dinner.

"The idea is to create one of those hubs that is available all day for the community," Brown said.

Brown, Wells and Rothman first teamed up in 2017 to open the Takoma Bev Co., at 6917 Laurel Ave., which has evolved as a popular gathering spot for those in the Takoma Park area. They followed up in 2021 with Zinnia, a Silver Spring tavern and beer garden, and in 2023 with Motorkat, the Takoma Park restaurant at 6939 Laurel Ave. that features sculpture of a motorcycle doing a wheelie out front.

For the past few years, the trio had been seeking locations for a new restaurant in the Mount Rainier vicinity and first toured 3403 Perry, which Feldman Ruel Senior Associate Hannah McCann had been marketing for sale on behalf of the building's owner.

Brown's group liked the location but felt the property, at 2,000 square feet, wasn't quite big enough. After the tour, Brown began wondering about possibly acquiring the adjacent corner property at 3401 Perry St.

"We were standing out front, and chatting, and I said, 'Man, it would be so great if we could do both of them together,'" he recalled. "Hannah was like, 'You know what? Let's reach out and see what I can do.' That snowballed into this concept, and we're just super-excited to be able to create something in a really cool community where people could come and hang out."

McCann said she discovered the adjacent property was owned by an affiliate of the Greater Rock Creek Baptist Church, which had stopped holding services in the building. The property hadn't been on the market, but McCann said church was receptive to her inquiry about selling it.

The group is now doing menu testing, Brown said, but has yet to land on the exact direction of the restaurant.

Brown's group has retained John DeNapoli and Otto Construction to design and build out the space. The work, expected to cost around $3 million, is slated to wrap up in time for a spring 2028 opening.

"Working in neighborhoods like this that have such a rich history of providing small local businesses that help grow a community, that is what really excites me in my business," Brown said.