Starbucks New Store Designs Highlight Coffee, Community and the Environment
Starbucks is reinvigorating the in-store experience for our customers by focusing on the aspects of our stores that makes each one unique. Inspired by Starbucks™ Shared Planet™, our ongoing commitment to ethical sourcing, environmental stewardship and community involvement, the new designs reflect the character of each store's surrounding neighborhood and help to reduce environmental impacts. We hope customers will feel an enhanced sense of community, a deeper connection to our coffee heritage and a greater level of commitment to environmental consciousness.
"We recognize the importance of continuously evolving with our customers' interests, lifestyles and values in order to stay relevant over the long term," said Arthur Rubinfeld, president, Starbucks Global Development. "Our new design approach will allow customers to feel truly at home when visiting their local store and give them opportunities for discovery at our other locations around the world."
As company-operated stores are built and renovated, we will source materials and employ craftsmen on a localized basis, and will incorporate reused and recycled elements where possible. We aim to achieve LEED® certification for all new company-operated stores beginning in 2010.
While the new store designs are highly interpretive, they share several core characteristics:
- Celebration of local materials and craftsmanship;
- Focus on reused and recycled elements;
- Exposure of structural integrity and authentic roots;
- Elevation of coffee and removal of unnecessary distractions;
- Storytelling and customer engagement through all five senses; and
- Flexibility to meet the needs of many customer types – individual readers and computer users, as well as work, study and social groups.
Customers can visit three new stores that showcase our new approach: 1st Avenue & Pike Street in Seattle near Pike Place Market, Paris Disney Village and a renovated store in Seattle's University Village.
Learn more about Starbucks Green Stores and take a virtual tour of one of our new stores.
