America's Largest Cities Without A Downtown Starbucks
June 11, 2015 76 comments
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Starbucks is the largest coffeehouse company in the world, with 21,536 stores in 64 countries and territories, including 12,218 in the United States. However,if you're looking for Frappauccino in one of these city's downtowns you'll find yourself out of luck. Here's the five largest cities in the United States where you won't find a single Starbucks location downtown.
1. Jacksonville, FL
1,419,127 (2014 Metropolitan Area population)
This downtown Jacksonville Starbucks was only open for about a year, despite a deal for free rent.
Jacksonville is the largest city by population in Florida, and the largest city by area in the contiguous United States. Thus, it wins this competition hands down.
However, one can't say the chain hasn't heard of downtown Jax. As recently as 2008, it operated multiple downtown locations, including one operating rent free. Nevertheless, after 10 years of serving downtown customers, the chain called it quits in 2011.
Article by Ennis Davis, AICP. Contact Ennis at edavis@moderncities.com
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