Fort Wayne, Indiana, offers much for visitors, from touring historical sites to enjoying the amenities at the Bradley Hotel and nearby The Landing.
, a craft brewery. Both are owned by Brendon Maxwell, a local who moved to Los Angeles then back home to start his businesses.Maxwell helped start Utopian Coffee as an online retailer in 2006 with an idea and $750, he said. The company has focused on sustainable coffee farming, sourcing beans from co-ops in Guatemala and East Africa and helping to convert cocaine fields to coffee farms in Colombia, he said.
The coffeehouse and brewery opened, unfortunately, during the summer of 2020, but they’ve been able to ride out the pandemic and are now seeing more visitors, Maxwell said. “Now that we have a destination hotel, you can plant yourself downtown for a weekend and never move your car.”The 125-room Bradley features decor designed by Barbara Bradley Baekgaard, co-founder of the Fort Wayne handbag and tote designer and retailer Vera Bradley. The wallpaper, carpets and other design elements include many bold geometric and botanical patterns that make Vera Bradley bags popular.
Nearby, at the very center of the city, is the magnificent and magnificently decorative Allen County Courthouse . Guided and self-guided tours are available of this ornate National Historic Landmark opened in 1902.
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