Tag: Starbucks
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What Starbucks Closures Reveal About Neighborhood Health and Home Values
Starbucks has long been more than a coffee shop. It’s been a signal — a shorthand for convenience, affluence, and upward mobility. So when the company announces plans to shut down hundreds of stores across the U.S., it’s not just a business story. It’s a real estate story. And like it or not, no neighborhood…
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Is 3D Printing the Future of Construction? Starbucks Thinks So
The future of construction might be arriving faster than most of us expected—and it’s being printed, not built. Starbucks recently opened a 3D-printed, drive-through-only store in Brownsville, Texas, marking one of the most visible uses of additive manufacturing in the commercial retail sector to date. At 1,400 square feet, the structure was constructed using a…
