Burr-Ville Sweet Treats ice cream shop planning to open June 29
This parklike setting in the yard next to the new Burr-Ville Sweet Treats ice cream shop is intended to serve as a community gathering spot especially for young people, the shop’s owner says. (photo:G Chambers Williams III )
Carla Long-Burroughs will be the shop’s owner, and it will be in the same single-story building at 195 Edgewood Ave. that also houses her other business, Genesis Real Estate Title.
She said she bought the building about two years ago, but uses only one side of it for the title company.
“I didn’t want to be a landlord, so I decided to start another business in the other side,” she said.
Long-Burroughs said she wanted to open the shop to “give the community a place to hang out and eat ice cream,” especially young people.
“I feel we were led to open the ice cream shop,” she said. “We won’t have any inside seating, but we have a big yard, and we have a custom pergola with porch swings and picnic tables in the yard.
“My heart is drawn to the next generation,” she said. “I hope to fill that yard with our teenagers,” she said.
“My vision is to have a summer sermon series, pulling in different youth pastors to come and give messages on Thursday nights.
“I also got to meet [Clinton Football] Coach [Darell] Keith, and I told him to bring his football players up there. They need somewhere to go after their games.”
The shop will feature special milkshakes, along with ice cream cones and sundaes, Long-Burroughs said.
“We will be serving Blue Bell ice cream, and during the football season, we will use their orange swirl ice cream to create an exclusive ‘Dragon shake,’” she said.
Long-Burroughs and her husband, Jason, have four children, including 3-year-old twin sons Jase and Jake, and two daughters, Camryn, who is a fourth-grade teacher at Clinton Elementary School, and Bailey, who will be a junior this fall at CHS.
Starting out, Burr-Ville will be open from 1 to 9 p.m. Tuesdays through Saturdays. she said. How long its season will be remains to be decided, but the hours most likely will be trimmed back when school starts again in August, she said.