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Starbucks set to pour by summer

The coffee chain's store on Central Avenue will be its first in St. Petersburg to have a drive-through.

By JON WILSON
Published May 21, 2006

ST. PETERSBURG - A Starbucks being built on Central Avenue at 66th Street appears to be on schedule to open by mid to late summer.

It will be the first of the coffee chain's stores in St. Petersburg proper to have a drive-through window. A Pinellas Park Starbucks and several others in Pinellas County have the service.

The building's shell is expected to be finished by the first week in July, said contractor Mark Gorman.

Then the interior set-up will proceed.

The coffee emporium replaces an Amoco service station that had been vacant for several years. Neighbors said street people adopted the site, which is in a busy retail and commercial area with residential neighborhoods nearby.

"I was kind of excited that a Starbucks was going to go there instead of that old gas station," said Roberta Yancey, vice president of the Lake Pasadena Estates Neighborhood Association.