CARRBORO -- Consider it the one place in Carrboro where you could stop in for an ice cream cone, and leave ready to slow cook a stew.

Maple View Farm will open a third store next month, offering freshly made ice cream and locally produced beef.

The owners predict the store, located in the former Tarheel TV shop on Weaver Street across the road from Weaver Street Market, will be a success.

"A lot of people in Chapel Hill and Carrboro already go out to the farm location," said Patti Tilley, who will own the store with her husband, Greg Tilley, and Bob Nutter, who owns Maple View Farm. "They're familiar with the product."

Nutter opened the first store in 2001 on the property of his Maple View dairy farm, at the corner of Rocky Ridge and Dairyland roads. The Tilleys opened a second store, aptly named Maple View Two, last spring at Hampton Pointe shopping center in Hillsborough. The Hillsborough location also sells beef and ice cream, as well as butter and honey.

Greg Tilley grew up on the farm next door to Maple View.

The Carrboro store will sell only ice cream and beef. But it will have tables and chairs for a rest while walking through downtown. The opening date has not yet been set.

"It's such a good location," Patti Tilley said. "Someone who worked in Carrboro said, 'This is going to be bad, I am going to be there every day for milkshakes.' "

Maple View's fresh ice cream is made from milk from cows on Nutter's family farm. In the summer, people often line the porch of the original store in Orange County, looking out at the cows and fields.

But Tilley said she's heard some of those regular customers are excited about the Carrboro store.

She said she's heard one out of three of them have mentioned it opening.

When it does open, it won't look anything like the old TV repair shop, Tilley said.

Workers are repairing the storefront and plumbing and adding central heat. Also, she said, they're dry-walling the interior.

"Pretty much the whole store was gutted and will be rebuilt," Tilley said.

Alex Herry of Chapel Hill licks his fill at the Hillsborough MVF store.

The former Tarheel TV sop, located in the right side of this building on Weaver Street, will soon be converted into a new Maple View Farm store.

Jack Farley of Fearrington Village enjoys chocolate and vanilla ice cream at the Maple View Farm store in Hillsborough on Tuesday. Maple View's ice cream is made from milk from cows on Bob Nutter's family farm. Nutter is the owner of Maple View Farm.