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Ardmore MilkBoy coffee shop sold

Jamie Lokoff and Tommy Joyner, the musicians turned coffee shop owners turned movie producers, have sold their MilkBoy coffee shop in Ardmore.

Jamie Lokoff and Tommy Joyner, the musicians turned coffee shop owners turned movie producers, have sold their MilkBoy coffee shop in Ardmore.

With the sale of a smaller coffee shop next to the Bryn Mawr Film Institute in 2011 - now called HotHouse Coffee - the Main Line entrepreneurs have officially left the area.

"It was time, we have a lot of stuff going on in the city and our energies have shifted focus," said Lokoff.

The new MilkBoy owners, Mark and Cathy Roy, plan to keep the space the same for now until they get to know the business better, he said.

"They had a dream of owning a place like this," said Lokoff.

Mark Roy said the coffee shop would be called Melodies Café as of Aug. 1.

After meeting in Philadelphia, Lokoff and Joyner set up a music studio in Ardmore in 2001 then opened a coffee shop around the corner in 2005.

In 2011 they moved to a larger studio in the city and opened another MilkBoy at 11th and Chestnut.

-- Kathy Boccella