Starbucks moving into South Claiborne Avenue corridor

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The South Claiborne Avenue corridor will have a new tenant next May.

Starbucks plans to open a new location at 2851 S. Claiborne Ave. on an outparcel of the University Retail Center, a 60,000-qaure-foot shopping center bordered by Toledano Street and Washington Avenue. The center was purchased and redeveloped in 2006 by local real estate developers G. Paul Dorsey Jr. and G. Paul Dorsey III in a project that added Save-a lot, Dollar General, Citi Trends, City Gear and It’s Fashion Metro.

Starbucks will be a newly constructed shop on the Washington Avenue side of the center, where a portion was demolished to make room for a drive-thru.

“We are very pleased to add Starbucks to our tenant mix and believe they will be very successful in this location which is an underserved area for premium coffees,” the Dorseys said in a news release.

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