HTeaO closes Leesburg location one year after opening

A Texas tea shop that opened in Leesburg a year ago has just closed its doors for good. 

HTeaO closed its doors at 914 N 14th Street in Leesburg at the beginning of this month. 

The store officially opened its doors on July 13, 2024. That opening came nearly two years after Leesburg-News.com first announced it.

Although there are still roughly 150 HTeaO locations in operation across the country, when the Leesburg store opened, there were approximately eight in Florida. 

According to the company’s website, there are now only two shops in operation in Florida (Lakeland, Fishhawk). 

HTeaO replaced the previous Jeff’s Health Foods store, which was at the corner of North 14th Street and Citizens Boulevard, next door to Wolfy’s restaurant.

Although the tea store distinguished itself from other local coffee shops with its product offering, its location recently became steeped with competition.

7 Brew Coffee, which is situated across from Palm Plaza, is just a quarter of a mile from HTeaO. 

Ellianos, a new coffee drive-thru chain that has been expanding throughout Marion, Sumter, and Lake counties in the past 18 months, just opened a new location this month that is less than a mile from HTeaO.

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