During its 25 years in Winter Park, Austin’s Coffee has been a place where folks can enjoy fair trade coffee and local entertainment nightly. For artists it’s a place to practice their craft — even if that means painting the walls.

From the small, red clay bricks directly to the right of the front entrance to the large, gray cinder blocks in the restrooms at rear, artists and regular customers have used the building as their canvas.

But now the days may be numbered for the coffee shop and the Austin’s community that has found refuge and common cause within its colorful walls. The shop’s new landlord, the city of Winter Park, has set an Oct. 31 closure date and said it will likely raze the building at 929 W. Fairbanks Ave. by year’s end.

Winter Park has wanted the land for decades, i

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