Last July, I mentioned that Starbucks operates a small number of concept drive-thru stores. They are either designed with shipping containers or with pre-fab construction. Out of the thousands and thousands of Starbucks in the United States and Canada, less than twenty-five are built with these unique drive-thru designs.
This article features the Westminster, California concept store from the list below, which is sixth from the bottom. You’ll find it at 15388 Goldenwest Street, in Westminster, California, and the store number is 19353. I had a great visit on January 18th. Got a delicious flat white and took all of the photos featured here. If you’ve been to this store, I’d love to know what you think!
I published a list of them in that first article from July 2014, and here the list is again, with a few more stores added to it.
- S. Parker Road and East Quincy Avenue – Aurora, Colorado – Prefab construction Starbucks, opened September 26, 2014.
- Highway 4 and Highway 160, Oakley, California – Prefab construction Starbucks, opened September 25, 2014.
- Overland Park, 75th & I35 – Overland Park, Kansas (Opened August 7, 2014) – A shipping container Starbucks.
- Chapel Hills Mall – Colorado Springs, Colorado – A shipping container Starbucks
- Hwy 211 & Hwy 99E – Woodburn, Oregon – Prefab construction design Starbucks. (Opened June 16, 2014)
- 60th & Columbia – Portland, Oregon – Prefab construction (Opened May 28, 2014)
- 104th Ave SE & 240th ST – Kent, Washington – Prefab construction, and is designated a “micro” store. (Opened May 25, 2014)
- W E ST & N Ceneter ST – Casper, Wyoming – Prefab construction
- NW 53rd & 15th Ave NW – Seattle (Ballard neighborhood), Washington – A shipping container Starbucks
- 23rd & Union – Tacoma, Washington – Prefab construction (Opened January 6, 2014 – Store is mentioned in the middle of the linked article).
- 167th ST & NE 2nd Ave – Miami, Florida – Prefab construction
- 288th & Pac Hwy – Federal Way, Washington – Prefab construction
- Broadway & Devon – Chicago, Illinois – A shipping container Starbucks (Opened October 13, 2013)
- London Bridge – Virginia Beach, Virginia – Prefab construction
- 122nd & Halsey – Portland, Oregon – A shipping container Starbucks (Opened September 18, 2013)
- Goldenwest & McFadden – Westminster, California – Prefab construction
- 3300 S&W Temple – Salt Lake City, Utah – A shipping container Starbucks, also designated a “micro” Starbucks.
- Pleasant Hills & Forest Grove – Roseville, California – Prefab construction, also designated a “micro” Starbucks.
- Powers Ferry & Terry Mill – Marietta, Georgia – Prefab construction
- 104th & Bannock – Northglenn, Colorado – A shipping container Starbucks
- Reclamation Concept – Tukwila, Washington – A shipping container (and this was the first of its kind – the first of all these stores). (Opened December 13, 2011)
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A drive-thru store very like this one just opened in my neighborhood in Covina, CA. It’s cute & efficient, but I do wish it had some interior seating.
Very cute place. I stopped by here this week. Please keep up the great articles. Great staff.
Hey Melody! I’m the manager of the DTO in Marietta GA and the name is actually Powers Ferry and Terrell Mill :). Would love for you to visit!
@Justin Todd – Thank you for the help!! I will get it corrected this evening, after work! Maybe someday I’ll make it to your store!
Nice pics! The stores around here are so antiquated compared to this store. The stores around here absolutely lack the charm and style and wish SB would look more closely at this.
Hi melody, London Bridge is also shipping container. Hi Justin at Powers Ferry where did Jessica go?
Nicole
Hi Melody, you didn’t list Chapman and Tustin in this article?
@Lisa DuVaul – It kills me that your store isn’t listed because it certainly looks like a pre-fab construction. Though I had to talk directly with SSC partners to get this list and I’ve been told that your store is actually not a shipping container or pre=fab construction design. Since you’ve got a concrete large structure with a facade, it’s not ‘pre-fab’ –
One important thing to know is that you can’t look at one of these stores and know what it is!!!! I see Instagram tags all the time where baristas proudly announce that they’re working in or visited a shipping container store, but really it was one of the pre-fab construction designs.
I’d love to get an updated list of these unique stores – I should work on that with my media relations contacts.
So is the Covina one a pre-fab store or not? It sure looks that way but I did not see it get built. https://www.google.com/maps/@34.0869647,-117.9078808,3a,75y,254.29h,80t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s7UZq_eYGsiQdVGQOjH1eLA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656