Black Rock Coffee Bar is bringing a new drive-thru to Maricopa, setting up shop directly across the street from the city’s only Dutch Bros — and reigniting a rivalry between two Oregon-based chains in Maricopa’s dynamic coffee market.
Plans filed with the city yesterday show Black Rock will build a 1,484-square-foot modular shop with drive-thru and patio service near the southeast corner of Edison Road and John Wayne Parkway.
The 0.8-acre site at the southern end of the main commercial strip sits between the Sherwin-Williams paint store and a future planned 5,000-square-foot commercial building labeled “Shops A” in site plans. The pads sit in front of Harbor Freight and Extra Space Storage.
The Maricopa site places Black Rock in direct competition with Dutch Bros for northbound morning traffic on the city’s busiest corridor. It also comes after Dutch Bros scrapped plans for a second location in Maricopa — a move that became 2024’s most-read story on InMaricopa.com.
Though both companies are based in Oregon, they’ve expanded aggressively across the Southwest — particularly in Arizona, where drive-thru coffee has become a booming business. Black Rock currently operates more than 100 stores across seven states and has been growing rapidly in metro Phoenix and Texas.
The Maricopa project is under review. No construction date has been set.
The drive-thru site was originally slated for an eegee’s restaurant. The iconic Tucson-based sandwich and frozen drink chain announced it would build a location near Edison and JWP in 2022 but never moved forward. That effort unraveled further after eegee’s filed for Ch. 11 bankruptcy in December, a development that led to several closures and effectively shelved its Maricopa expansion. Despite the bankruptcy, city planning maps still showed the site reserved for eegee’s as late as mid‑2025.
