STARBUCKS
Granville & Pender Flagship
Located at the center of Vancouver’s retail and financial district, this high visibility store holds the distinction of being Western Canada’s largest store. The execution of this project required intricate coordination with the consultant team, landlord, vendors and the general contractor to achieve project milestone’s and reach the established opening date on time and ensure successfully meeting the organization’s sales week commitment to shareholders for the fiscal year.
The store features an elevated design not only in it’s use of materials but a variety of hand-crafted specialty coffee brewing methods such as Siphon, Chemex and Pour Over in addition to customized food offerings. At opening the location was also designated Canada’s second Starbucks Reserve Store, featuring rare and exotic coffee varieties and also served as a pilot location for Starbucks Evenings which included a specially curated menu of wine and coffee infused cocktails.

PROJECT DETAILS
TYPOLOGY: Food & Beverage Retail (QSR)
SCALE: 3,114 ft2
BUDGET: $1.2 million
GENERAL CONTRACTOR: KTW Construction
M&E CONSULTANT: Prism Engineering
ARCHITECT OF RECORD: GWA Architects
TIMELINE: 18 Months


