5305 West Elkins Street

*For the business which this building was home to, see Big Coffee.*

* Current
* Up for rent
* Big Coffee
* Burger Clown
* Secret café

**5305 West Elkins Street**) is a building next to the Greens' house which appears in every background shot where it is present.

For a majority of the series, it was home to Big Coffee and the Greens' Rooftop Garden (the former since "Level Up"); after its destruction by Chip Whistler in "Chipocalypse Now", the rebuilt building was put up for rent (through Don & Dawn), and briefly housed a Burger Clown and an illegal secret café; it is currently owned by the Gloria + Green Café as of "Gloria's Café" and opened in Season 3.

## Appearance

As with the next-door Elkins Apartment, the building is tall and colored beige. The exterior always has a tent at the front entrance.

As Big Coffee, the exterior is brown and very drab in general, and as Burger Clown, the exterior takes on a variety of bright colors, yellow and orange the most prominent out of them. The sign's background is an azure blue.

Currently, the Gloria + Green Café, which is now under construction as of "Gloria's Café", will take on a dark green exterior and two shades of gray, dark and light gray, for the tent.

## History

### Before the Show

Long ago before Big City expansion the space now occupied by the building was home to the main barn of Green Family Farms. According to Gramma, what's left of Metrona Green's aeroplane is buried under the building (except for the front rotor which was converted into the windmill blades for the city Green house).

The current building was likely built a few decades before the show.

### As Big Coffee

For a majority of the series, the building was home to Big Coffee, Gloria Sato's original workplace prior to its hostile takeover by Chip Whistler in "Chipwrecked". Big Coffee was the original hang-out place for the Greens, their friends and Gloria.

#### Green Family Farms rooftop garden

In "Level Up", the Greens establish a rooftop garden on the roof of the building on the grounds of an undisclosed amount of profits of the garden being ceded to Big Coffee. This agreement simulated an expansion of farmland for Green Family Farms. This garden was likely removed with Big Coffee before the building of the Wholesome Foods Mega-Store unless the Greens re-established it as a part of the business deal between Alice and Gloria after the founding of Gloria's Café.

### Destruction & Wholesome Foods

In "Chipocalypse Now", adding to his hostile takeover of Big Coffee, Chip also took over the next-door Elkins Apartment and detonated both. Over the course of a week, Chip began construction of the Wholesome Foods Mega-Store, a glorified supermarket with a second floor, on where both buildings stood. After construction, the building laid on the land that used to belong to both buildings for a mere day, until a revolution, where Chip was the ultimate loser and the Greens the victor, led to the Mega-Store's demolition.

### No ownership

A few days after the battle, the building where Big Coffee was located in was reinstated, and with the help of realtor couple Don & Dawn, was put up for rent. The rooftop garden is also gone. The space was momentarily up for rent until Burger Clown scored the space, and put up for rent once again after Burger Clown's closure.

### Brief moments of ownership

#### As Burger Clown

As mentioned above, Burger Clown was able to secure the building for its latest branch, only to be closed a mere week later due to Cricket and Bill getting stuck on the slide. ("Fast Foodie") With Burger Clown's closure, the place was put up for rent once again.

#### Brief secret café stint

The inability to score a loan severely hurt Gloria's chances, so she takes to utilizing the vacant Big Coffee building to gain enough cash to get a loan. However, this is foiled by Officer Keys and, in an indirect way, the Greens.

### As Gloria + Green Café

Gramma sees a downtrodden Gloria, who just got arrested and lost the secret café, and allows Gloria some of her retirement money (in exchange for some payback in return), allowing her to start the Gloria + Green Café.

The café officially opened in Season 3, and around the time of "Boss Life", it has become an instant success. Cricket resumed his job along with the rest of his family, but as of "The Move", the Greens no longer work there due to moving back to the country.

## Trivia

* This building does not officially have a name, but due to being associated with Big Coffee for a majority of the series, the wiki colloquially refers to this building as **Big Coffee building**. Though it should be noted that this name is not official by any means and may change in the future.
* All businesses that operated in this building have contrasting colors:
	+ As Big Coffee, a drab color scheme to befit Gloria's cynical outlook of the world.
	+ As Burger Clown, a very bright color scheme to befit Cricket's optimism.
	+ As the secret café, the same as Big Coffee but predominantly shadowy to reflect Gloria trying to hide the café from the authority.
	+ As the Gloria + Green Café, a mixture of greens and browns, to befit the Green family and Gloria being their honorary member, and also to reflect their official ownership.
* The three businesses that operated in this building are all eateries.
* The building, when up for rental, has Big Coffee's colors. This remains the case after Burger Clown's closure.
	+ However, it is confirmed that Big Coffee will not reopen in this particular location, instead being replaced with both a Burger Clown (temporarily) and Gloria's own café.
* During the unreleased pilot for the series, the business was confirmed to be called "Café de Urbana", until it was changed to Big Coffee later on.

## Notes

1. ↑ By looking at the number on top of the door in inside shots.