StreetLevel: Starbucks Sweet on 4th Ave.?
Gowanus Lounge reports that the western corner of 4th Avenue and Third Street is rumored by an “informed reader” to be the future location of a Starbucks. The site, which sold last year for $3.25 million and is currently being rehabilitated, is across the street from the Novo and on the same block as Staples…
Gowanus Lounge reports that the western corner of 4th Avenue and Third Street is rumored by an “informed reader” to be the future location of a Starbucks. The site, which sold last year for $3.25 million and is currently being rehabilitated, is across the street from the Novo and on the same block as Staples and Hotel Le Bleu. A real estate executive we spoke to who was involved in the sale of the property said there’s truth to the Starbucks talk, though its owner declined to comment on the matter. Is there room on 4th Ave. for more than one Clover?
Fourth Ave. Bulletin: Hot Corridor Getting a Starbucks? [Gowanus Lounge] GMAP
Photo of site from GL; photo of drink by Miss Peach.
Everyone that is saying that 4th Avenue cannot support a coffee shop because there is no foot traffic, etc. needs to stop into Root Hill Cafe.
Although new, the place seems to get a good amount of business and makes great coffee!
Its also not in a location as close to the new larger developments as the potential Sbucks.
3:36: you should go back to the business school you obviously never graduated from in the first place. They will be putting two other stores adjacent to the starbucks. there goes your argument. anyways, people who live in expensive condos tend to like expensive coffee and might just go to the closest place to buy it…hmmm….i never went to business school and figured that out all by myself. i guess the demographics studies that starbucks always does before opening a location support the location too (starbucks has been pretty successful if im informed correctly). or should we all believe that you know better than the fortune 500 company, the multibillion dollar lender, and the property owner?good job, genius..
If starbucks is willing to open a store on 4th why does it bother you,its not your money,
i’m the first one that “whined” and my whine wasn’t about retail on 4th ave. It was about opening up a coffee shop on a stretch of road that has practically NO OTHER stores that will induce someone to come by for a coffee. Coffee shops seem to do well when surrounded by other stores people will be shopping in and walking by. Starbucks isn’t a destination for your day, more of a place you stop by when you see one. Its a stupid idea because feasibly it doesn’t seem well thought out. But then again putting a fancy hotel on a street full of tire shops and prostitutes didn’t seem like a good idea either…maybe my business school just had things wrong. Its not my money so what do I care what they do with it. I can’t imagine a bank would loan anyone money for this business plan.
you morons whine about retail on fourth ave all the time and when there is a chance for a starbucks or any retail you trash it!
Thankfully only one Starbucks in the Slope on 7th Ave. Let the locals prosper; Ozzies is more centrally located on 5th Ave. at Garfield and doing just fine. Poor Howard Shultz, time to downsize and get back to basics, especially in a slowing economy!
Marion
Starsucks depends on FOOT TRAFFIC!!! That area people are driving at 90 MPH!
I will be glad for the depression, they wont lend money to assfucks to throw away!
The What
Someday this war is gonna end…
You know, I just don’t need to have a coffee shop on every corner. I don’t mind walking some blocks.
Guerrilla coffee is the best in brooklyn, IMHO
and I rather have that than the sweet frappe-whatever then sell at Starschmucks.
i would never open a chain store hoping people will eventually move in. wouldn’t you prefer an existing customer base? Maybe it’ll be a drive thru starbucks. that would be awesome.