The world’s largest Starbucks is coming to Chicago’s Magnificent Mile in 2019

June 27th, 2017 by Fiedler Group

The four-story, 43,000 square foot Reserve Roastery will be a “fully sensorial coffee environment dedicated to roasting, brewing and packaging its rare, small-batch Starbucks Reserve coffees from around the world,” according to the company.

The Reserve Raostery will have interactive tours and feature multiple brewing methods, a new menu of coffees and mixology and will have a dedicated space to allow fresh baking on-site featuring Italian baker Rocco Princi.

The architect has not yet been announced yet but there has been a rendering released which also features a landscaped rooftop terrace with outdoor seating.

It will be the third roastery to open in the U.S. behind the flagship Seattle location, which opened in 2014, and one slated to open in New York in 2018.

“Having opened our first Starbucks store in Chicago nearly 30 years ago, our first outside of Seattle, this is a very special city for me,” Howard Schultz, Starbucks’ executive chairman, said in a statement. “At the time, it was a true test for Starbucks because the Chicago customer is so savvy and discerning about their coffee.”

Schultz has been eyeing this specific building, the location of Crate & Barrel on Michigan Avenue, to fulfil his plans to create “the Willy Wonka of coffee,” for the past 27 years.

Starbucks said it eventually plans to have 20 to 30 Roastery flagships globally, and as many as 1,000 Reserve stores.

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Source: World’s Largest Starbucks to Open in Chicago in 2019 | NBC Chicago https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/Worlds-Largest-Starbucks-to-Open-in-Chicago-in-2019-420513864.html#ixzz4l7fAK17z

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