New Business Spotlight: Indigo Bakery

New Business Spotlight: Indigo Bakery

Melanie Hein and Michael Caldwell are proud to announce Indigo Bakery will open soon.

When Kudzu Bakery closed its downtown Georgetown location two years ago, it left a void on Front Street.
Since then, many people have said they wished a new bakery would open in the business district.
Well, Melanie Hein and Michael Caldwell are soon going to fill that need with the opening of Indigo Bakery.
The new bakery will be located at 701 Front Street and is expected to open before the end of September.
The couple recently moved to Georgetown from California to start the business. They chose Georgetown because it was a place Caldwell had visited on vacations as a child.
He said his mother grew up in Kingstree and he has an uncle from Darlington who owns a home in Pawleys Island.
“That is where we would come when I was growing up. We would come to the beach,” Caldwell said.
During one of the more recent visits, Caldwell and his mother visited the Rice Museum and were then walking along Front Street when he saw the vacant building next to Thomas’s Café. He said he knew right then that would be a great place for a business.
He said they chose to start a bakery because on his first date with Hein, she had said one of her goals was to own that type of business.
During an interview with GAB News Sept. 6, Caldwell said when he saw the empty building he knew “that would be a cool place to have a bakery.”
Hein said, ironically, it was two-years-to-the-day between their first date and the day Caldwell saw the building for sale.
Hein said she flew to the area about a year ago and saw the building for the first time. At that time, they did not know they would be filling a void left by the closing of Kudzu.
Caldwell and Hein said they expect the location of the building to help boost the business. Not only are they located right beside the very popular Thomas’s Café -- meaning people can stop in for dessert after having breakfast or lunch – they are also straight across from the Strand Theater. That means after-show crowds can also enjoy the delicious treats they will offer.
Plus, the bakery will not only have indoor seating, it will have an outside seating deck that will connect to the Harborwalk boardwalk.
Something for every sweet tooth
Hein said she has been trying out a lot of different recipes and when the bakery opens it will be full of terrific treats.
“On a daily basis, we will have a variety of cakes and cookies, brownies, breakfast pastries. We will have savory options,” she said.

Hein also said she will take orders for custom cakes and wedding cakes.
She said the bakery will be trying “new things all the time.

“I love doing the pipe decorated cookies that are popular right now,” she said. “I like to decorate things like sugar cookies and cupcakes.”
There will also be a selection of more healthy choices.
Click here to visit the Indigo Bakery Facebook page.

A Great Welcome
Both Hein and Caldwell said they already feel right at home because of the welcome and support they have received.
“People have been amazingly nice. You hear about southern hospitality, but it has been way beyond that,” Caldwell said.
Hein agreed saying “everyone has been so warm and have been making sure that we are meeting the right people and are introducing us to their friends.”
Hein said she feels she “could not have landed in a better place.”

By Scott Harper

GAB News