A three-in-one coffee shop and cigar and hookah lounge is set to open in late April off of North Ninth Avenue and Creighton Road. 

The 9,000-square-foot building is divided into two sections — Mido's Coffee Shop, which will include a small food menu, and Mido's Cigar & Hookah Lounge. Owner Kierstyn Hussin said she thinks there is a little something for everyone at Mido's. 

"It's going to be a place where people are going to want to come and relax," Hussin said. "It's not like a bar atmosphere, we don't serve alcohol. We're going to have free WiFi and we have a projector screen in the coffee shop area. And then the hookah lounge and the humidor as well, so, it'll be something different." 

Mido's will be an "Americanized hookah lounge with an Egyptian touch," according to Hussin. The shop will serve organic Amavida Coffee and brew flavors like Espresso Africa, Ethiopia Sidama, Honduras Decaf and a Congo cold brew. The base menu will include scones, crepes, lunch sandwiches, salads and yogurt, according to Hussin, and will expand over time.

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Major sporting events will play on the large projector screen directly over the middle of the coffee counter, and Hussin said Mido's may show UFC and boxing fights in the future.

"I think we can attract a lot of students being between the two colleges," Hussin said of the shop's location between the University of West Florida and Pensacola State College. "There aren't any coffee shops in this little area over here, you have to go over to the mall." 

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Customers can buy their own hookahs or rent one of Mido's hookahs to sit and smoke in the lounge for $10. It costs an additional $10 for every person smoking on one hookah. 

The cigar lounge is inside of a humidor and made of Spanish cedar, which absorbs little odor and withstands humidity well. Hussin has an account with Davidoff Cigars, a cigar supplier with a Tallahassee location. 

Including herself, Hussin hopes to have six to eight employees working when Mido's opens in about 30 days. The shop needs baristas, cashiers, servers and overseers in both the hookah lounge and cigar humidor. Hussin's brother-in-law is helping her open Mido's and will likely run the hookah lounge in the business' early going. 

The vision for the unique, multi-faceted business belonged to Hussin's late husband, Mahmoud, who died of colon cancer in 2015. He was an entrepreneur and small business owner from the time he moved to the U.S. from Egypt in 1998 and spent the last seven years of his life married to Kierstyn. The shop and lounge is named in Mahmoud Hussin's honor; his nickname was Mido. 

Together in 2010, Mahmoud and Kierstyn Hussin opened a wholesale convenience store supplier business in 2010. They relocated the store a few years later from a building near Innerlight Surf & Skate Shop on North Ninth Avenue to its current location, which is behind the unopened coffee and cigar and hookah lounge. 

Hussin said every last details of the shop was meticulously planned by her late husband. 

"It was just a hollow building when he started working on it," Hussin said. "He knew exactly what he wanted. He would give really specific instructions to contractors and if something wasn't right he'd say, 'Do it again.'" 

The Hussins signed a 10-year lease to rent the building in 2013. When the lease is up, Kierstyn Hussin said she hopes to buy the property. 

"All the energy and effort that (Mahmoud) and I put into it, we can't put all this investment into it without owning it one day," she said.

Her late husband's eyes are subtly painted within the designs of the divider that separates the shop and the lounge. After his death, Hussin took about a year away from renovating the building and getting the business off the ground from 2015 to 2016 to grieve. But, she said, she knew she would come back and fulfill her husband's vision. 

"The wholesale business was a really great business for us. It sustained us while we traveling for his treatment," she said. "Things started falling apart when he died, so in 2016, I came back and basically reorganized the wholesale shop and re-invested money where I needed to. Then for the last year or so I've really been focusing on getting (the shop and lounge) going. 

Hussin said she's not sure about eventual expansion but is sure she wants to pass the new business on to her 6-year-old twin daughters one day. 

"My husband put so much work into this, I want to pass this on to our kids," she said. "I want them to see what their dad built and carry it on as adults." 

Mido's, which is located at 6886 N. Ninth Avenue, will be open seven days a week, likely from 8 a.m. until 8 p.m. Visit Mido's Facebook page for more information.

Jake Newby can be reached at jnewby@pnj.com or 850-435-8538.