Thomas Spisak-Mosher and Tom Fleischer, longtime friends and co-owners of Goat House Creamery in Elkins Park (Cheltenham Township), are moving toward a significant expansion of the space.

Spisak-Mosher told Glenside Local that plans currently include adding a vinyl shop and a coffee shop to Goat House’s current offerings by knocking down the wall that adjoins 7908 High School Road and 7910 High School Road. The latter was previously a dress shop which closed in December.

The new conglomeration will become something of a small market with all three stores in one shared location.

Spisak-Mosher said he and Fleischer purchased a portion of Goat House Creamery from owners Johanna Garcia and Jason Winfield in November 2025. Spisak-Mosher had previously opened a record shop called Vinyl Underground in Portland, Oregon, and Fleischer had purchased a coffee roaster, from which he launched his own company called Morning Static.

Fleischer (above left) and Spisak-Mosher (above right)

After Spisak-Mosher moved back to the area, he and Fleischer began looking for a space to open their joint venture.

“About six months after he bought the roaster, he came to me with the beans he made himself. I was blown away,” Spisak-Mosher said. “From there, we tried to find a location. When the dress shop closed, we decided that we wanted to seize the opportunity. We got a lease for the space in January and started to plan for the redesign.”

Their vision stems in part from a record shop slash coffee house they used to frequent in downtown Philly.

“We’ve struggled to find that level of quality around here, so we created a shared benefit LLC, whereby my company, Vinyl Underground, Tom’s company, Morning Static, and Goat House Creamery are connected as an entity,” Spisak-Mosher said. “We live right down the street, so this is a dream for us. I was hoping to grab the former Elkins Perk space or the current flower shop on High School Road, and then I heard Goat House was looking to bring in partners.”

The new partnership got keys to the former dress shop on February 1 and have since gutted the space.

“We’re engaging with the township to make sure our permitting is aligned. We’re excited about it. We’re going to have more seating, tables, and records for sale. We’re also going to have occasional DJs to try to make it an overall community space. We want it to be a comfortable space for dates, friend meetups, book clubs, anything,” he said, noting that Goat House has already begun serving Morning Static coffee.

“It’s a blend of a Guatemalan bean with influences from Ethiopian and Colombian beans. We’ve put out bags for sale, and they’ve gone quickly,” he said. “We also have brand new pastries from a nearby bakery and we’re also looking at launching breakfast sandwiches. We want to make sure train commuters know they can get a bite to eat.”

“Goat House has been such an amazing central piece of the community, so we want to minimize downtime. Our hope is that by mid- to late spring to have demolition well underway, if not completed. We hope to soft open the relaunch site by late spring or early summer,” he said.

“We also have entry-level record players through a deal with a Japanese company, and some interesting modern CD players for sale. $200 gets you a beautiful starter record player along with some vinyls we have for sale right now,” he said.

For more on Goat House Creamery, you can visit their Facebook page. More to come.

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