Heaven Creamery moving one store and adding two more

Heaven Creamery is scooping up real estate.

The local ice cream parlor chain is moving its Cherry Creek store and has two new locations in the works in Arvada and Boulder.

The additions will bring the company to six stores in the area.

Owner Martha Trillo moved to Denver and opened the first Heaven Creamery in Centennial a few months before pandemic lockdowns. Prior to that, she opened Kiwi International Delights in Avon in 2014, which is still open.

In Cherry Creek, Heaven is moving from 299 Milwaukee St. to 1,500 square feet at 158 Fillmore St. because its current property is set to be redeveloped by its new owner, Matt Joblon’s BMC Investments.

Trillo said she knew when she entered the lease for 299 Milwaukee St. two years ago that the previous owners, the Gart family, planned to sell. She’ll open in the new spot this September.

“Fortunately, we didn’t struggle finding a place,” Trillo said. “It was meant to be, it was waiting for us. We were lucky because everything is under construction and it’s difficult to find places.”

In Arvada, Trillo expects to open later this year in 1,300 square feet at 7357 Grandview Ave.

“I wasn’t even thinking of opening another location, but honestly … we loved it so we couldn’t let it go,” Trillo said.

Her brother Julio Trillo and sister-in-law Eva Nuñez are bringing the creamery’s first franchise to Boulder with plans to open the 2,100-square-foot space at 2525 Arapahoe Ave. next month.

And amid all the new storefronts, Trillo also secured her own real estate for a production facility she’s calling Heaven Laboratorio. She purchased the 3,100-square-foot building at 1351 W. Alameda Ave. for $750,000 last month.

The ice cream has been made in Heaven’s individual stores, which Trillo said is becoming “impossible.” Production will shift to the new spot this fall.