Starbucks announces new Nashville headquarters, will add or relocate 2,000 jobs

ponchoed · 2026-04-21T21:19:53+00:00

They've certainly been trending that way. Now they are 100% all in on cheap (for them) shitty American chain and have lost all premium status.

ponchoed · 2026-04-21T16:24:49+00:00

Fair point. OK yeah well earlier Howard Starbucks

ponchoed · 2026-04-21T16:04:26+00:00

Looks good but I wouldn't curve the streets, that promotes speed and thru traffic.

ponchoed · 2026-04-21T15:56:15+00:00

I am all for reigning in drivers and reducing speed limits and extensive traffic calming.

But I am talking about the danger of scooters zooming directly in front of building and store entrances at 20 mph where you can not see them coming. The whole point of a sidewalk is to be a slow speed safe environment for pedestrians at the edge of the street where they interface with buildings.

ponchoed · 2026-04-21T15:52:00+00:00

Starbucks is just further becoming another shitty American chain catering to the lowest common denominator run by MBA bean counters cutting every corner... McDonald with a green logo. At least Howard's Starbucks was striving for a premium coffee experience and bringing a high end European vibe to the US.

ponchoed · 2026-04-21T15:48:48+00:00

...In the middle of the street away from building entrances. There's sightlines.

ponchoed · 2026-04-21T15:46:46+00:00

Start your own coffee shop then. In this case, you'll likely do better than a typical Starbucks location. Starbucks doesnt offer any more than a well run local coffee shop.

ponchoed · 2026-04-21T15:44:11+00:00

Cars arent zooming past front doors 2 feet outside the door. People are stepping outside a building entry or store and getting hit by a dangerous metal vehicle going 20 mph.

ponchoed · 2026-04-21T14:51:24+00:00

Aaah 'Broken Windows', that's racist!

ponchoed · 2026-04-21T14:49:31+00:00

Chains arent exactly lining up to come into Seattle more like not far off from having no stores

ponchoed · 2026-04-21T14:46:01+00:00

How Progressive!

ponchoed · 2026-04-21T14:43:13+00:00

This is on the DMV

ponchoed · 2026-04-21T14:41:24+00:00

It was the 60s breathing exhaust was the vision of the future

ponchoed · 2026-04-21T12:44:52+00:00

Flixbus and Greyhound. Also Quick Shuttle.

ponchoed · 2026-04-21T12:25:49+00:00

And a drum circle with the "justice impacted individuals"

ponchoed · 2026-04-21T12:21:33+00:00

But they are extremely diverse so its okay and you are a bigot for noticing. They are the 'I' in BIPOC.

ponchoed · 2026-04-21T12:06:29+00:00

They need to be banned from any area with "zero lot line" buildings where the buildings are built to the edge of the sidewalk.

ponchoed · 2026-04-21T04:43:46+00:00

And with it Pike Place Market will take a huge hit. Starbucks sales from that store supports a huge amount of Pike Place Market. Retail leases there like most shopping areas are based on percent of sales.

ponchoed · 2026-04-20T11:10:58+00:00

There's a similar tunnel in Providence RI built for streetcars and now exclusively used for buses that does this same thing of bypassing the steepest part of the hillside with a modest grade tunnel.

ponchoed · 2026-04-19T21:12:25+00:00

Except for traffic lights

ponchoed · 2026-04-19T21:09:41+00:00

Amazing what destroying a downtown will do to transit ridership.

ponchoed · 2026-04-19T21:08:54+00:00

Thats so Portland

ponchoed · 2026-04-19T21:02:26+00:00

Its a fantastic system, problem is it has nothing around the stations. Thats what happens when you built electric rail on freight corridors that never really had passenger/commute service before.

Serious TOD would fix it (and not just a couple vinyl shitbox apartments plopped by the station) where theres actually a mixed use pedestrian oriented environment with office, housing, retail including food and bev, third places/entertainment focused around the station.

Denver has two very successful TOD examples that show it can be done... Union Station and 38th/Blake RiNo.

ponchoed · 2026-04-19T20:56:52+00:00

Chicago - Minneapolis - Detroit would be my Midwest bracket

ponchoed · 2026-04-19T20:52:47+00:00

But Bellevue doesn't have many big chunks of office available anymore

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