Brickscape Cafe In the News
Check out local media coverage of Brickscape Cafe. We're delighted to be a part of the Longmont community, and appreciate the support from local publications and groups!
Brickscape Café Builds in Bigger Brick and Mortar
Longmont Herald | March 26, 2025
“This is first and foremost, a community-centered business,” Abbitt said. “If it was just a retail LEGO store, I wouldn’t have done it. Retail doesn’t interest me that much. It’s being a community center, that’s what I love.”
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Brickscape Cafe Is Heaven for LEGO Lovers
Westword | May 19, 2023
"LEGO does a lot with neurodiversity, mental health issues...[t]hey have special programs like learning Braille using a specific set of bricks, and they have a methodology they call ‘Serious Play’ that enterprise companies can use to help their teams visualize problems and come up with solutions. So I thought, 'Man, it would be cool if someone was able to bring all this under one roof.'”
Read More at WestwordBrickscape Cafe brings joy of LEGOs to Longmont
Longmont Times Call | May 4, 2023
Building. Community. Connections.
The slogan for Longmont’s new independent LEGO store, Brickscape Cafe, captures what founder Billie Abbitt hopes to achieve in Longmont – a “community of play.”
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Longmont’s new Brickscape Cafe aims to cultivate creativity
Longmont Leader April 12, 2023
"Community-building and cultivation is a process of feedback and iteration, knowing that what we co-create is possible."
Read more at the Longmont Leader