Starbucks at 1 Camino Santa Maria in San Antonio — a 1,340-square-foot outpost found inside Blume Library at St. Mary’s University — is scheduled to undergo renovations, according to a recent permit application.
The refresh will include the “removal of [the] existing coffee kiosk to create a new coffee line counter with direct access to the existing BOH spaces serving the Starbucks” — and is predicted to cost around $500,000 in total. Slated to begin on May 31 and finish in late August, New Orleans-based firm Multistudio is tasked with carrying out the job.
How or if the renovations will affect the locations’s hours of operation has not yet been announced.
While many readers are familiar with the international chain, fewer may be familiar with how the mega-corporation was born. The Starbucks website provides a brief introduction: “Our story begins in 1971 along the cobblestone streets of Seattle’s historic Pike Place Market. It was here where Starbucks opened its first store, offering fresh-roasted coffee beans, tea, and spices from around the world for our customers to take home.”
“By 1996, we would cross the Pacific to open our first store in Japan, followed by Europe in 1998 and China in 1999… [and] over the next two decades, we would grow to welcome millions of customers each week and become a part of the fabric of tens of thousands of neighborhoods all around the world,” the statement continues — and the chain shows no signs of slowing its expansion efforts any time soon.
