DUBOIS – Starbucks has proposed the opening of a specialty coffee shop in DuBois.
Monday night, Sandy Township’s board of supervisors voted to approve a stormwater waiver request and stormwater maintenance agreement for the proposed coffee shop.
Site work and construction will take place with an expected turn over date by April 15, 2025 for Starbucks to complete interior work.
Starbucks plans to open the shop near Midway Drive.
The Starbucks 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 customers to take home.
Its name was inspired by the classic tale, “Moby-Dick,” evoking the seafaring tradition of the early coffee traders.
Ten years later, a young New Yorker named Howard Schultz would walk through these doors and become captivated with Starbucks coffee from his first sip.
After joining the company in 1982, a different cobblestone road would lead him to another discovery.
It was on a trip to Milan in 1983 that Howard first experienced Italy’s coffeehouses, and he returned to Seattle inspired to bring the warmth and artistry of its coffee culture to Starbucks.
By 1987, Starbucks swapped its brown aprons for green ones and embarked on its next chapter as a coffeehouse.
Starbucks would soon expand to Chicago and Vancouver, Canada and then on to California, Washington, D.C., and New York.
By 1996, it would cross the Pacific to open its first store in Japan, followed by Europe in 1998 and China in 1999.
Over the next two decades, Starbucks 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.
“In everything we do, we are always dedicated to Our Mission: With every cup, with every conversation, with every community – we nurture the limitless possibilities of human connection,” the company Web site shares.
Today, with nearly 39,000 stores world-wide, the company is the premier roaster and retailer of specialty coffee in the world.