Starbucks set to open Monday
The new Clinton Starbucks on North Charles G. Seivers Boulevard near Interstate 75, Exit 122, will open for business at 5:30 a.m. Monday, March 14, company officials say. (photo:G. Chambers Williams III )
The new coffee shop, at 2174 N. Charles Seivers Blvd., will open its doors at 5:30 a.m. on Monday, March 14, a company spokesperson said Tuesday.
Workers were putting the finishing touches on the store’s interior on Tuesday morning, but the outside patio area and the drive-through lane are ready for customers, and the patio lights were already on Monday evening.
Starbucks says the new store will employ 25-30 people. Although the store’s location and hours are not yet up on the company’s website, nearby Starbucks in Powell and Oak Ridge are open seven days a week from 5:30 a.m. to 9 p.m.
The Starbucks spokesperson emphasized that the Clinton location has a drive-through, which apparently is not always the case. For instance, Starbucks stores in Northern Virginia and the Washington, D.C., area usually don’t have them, while most standalone stores in Texas do, according to a former longtime Starbucks employee who has worked in both areas.
There are Starbucks locations inside some supermarkets and department stores in this area, along with the standalone stores, including Ingles, Kroger and Target in Powell.
Clinton’s Starbucks is one of two tenants in a 5,474 square-foot building in the Glen Alpine II shopping strip near Interstate 75, Exit 122. The other tenant is SP’s Wine & Liquor, which opened in early February.
Construction began on the building last summer. The Starbucks store takes up about 2,300 square feet of the building’s total space.
The city of Clinton last June 22 issued a building permit for the structure to Sinking Springs LLC in the Glen Alpine II development, and a $356,000 building permit for the interior construction of the Starbucks store was issued on Dec. 10.
Knoxville developer Andy Hillmer is listed as the principal on the permits. This development is just west of the building already completed that houses Buddy’s Bar-b-q, which opened in December 2020, along with a Farm Bureau insurance office and a Tennova Healthcare clinic.
A new Sonic Drive-In opened two weeks ago on the other side of Buddy’s.