Chris Crowley wrote:It's really happening: Starbucks's planned "Eataly-style" coffee center will open at 61 Ninth Avenue in the Meatpacking District, right next to the tourist hot spot the Chelsea Market and Google's headquarters. (Also a few doors down from a Blue Bottle, and right across the street from a current Starbucks shop, which, to be fair, is probably something you could say about 99 percent of real-estate sites in Manhattan.) Expected to arrive in 2018, the center will be located in a brand-new, 154,000-square-foot development, where the new shop will take over 20,000 of the forthcoming building's 37,000 square feet of retail space.

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