None of them are close to me.
http://www.starbucks.com/aboutus/pressdesc.asp?id=880
Update: It looks like they've updated the list, and there is a Starbucks on Division which is closing. I'm obviously really unhappy that those workers will be left without jobs but as far as the shrinking of a huge transnational corporation if even the slightest bit, I think it's a good thing. This Starbucks opened shortly before I moved here, but not without a fight. Someone even threw a molotov cocktail through the front window. (Read more here) The damage, unfortunately, has already been done. This coffeeshop paved the way for skyrocketing rents, and renovations turning an otherwise tight-knit community has been run out and polished up by developers for the yuppies. Laura shared studio space with 4 other artists next to a worker owned coffeeshop. There was an architecture firm, and another art studio in the same building, and now it's all gone and there's a bar there that looks like every other 'modern' hip bar fully furnished by Ikea. It's frustrating. So if one more place packs it up and has to leave? The only tear I shed is for the employees, particularly these, because they don't have the training to be a barista anywhere else in the city because, let's face it, Starbucks' coffee sucks.
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