Caribou Coffee To Open Second SunTrust Plaza Location

Plans filed Tuesday for downtown coffee shop.

Plans filed Tuesday for downtown coffee shop.

Caribou Coffee has plans to open a downtown store in the same building as an existing location of the specialty coffee and espresso retailer.

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Atlanta-based Portman Holdings, a real estate development, investment and management company, submitted a building permit application to City of Atlanta Tuesday to convert space in the SunTrust Plaza (one of Portman’s buildings) into the coffee shop, at 303 Peachtree St.

Caribou already has a location inside the SunTrust building in the garden food court. The new coffee shop will open in the building’s lobby near Portman Holdings’ offices, a manager at the downtown Caribou told What Now Atlanta (WNA) in a telephone interview Tuesday.

The existing location will remain open, he said.

An estimated $115,000 will be spent converting the 450-square-foot space into a Caribou Coffee, according to the permit application.

Do you think the SunTrust building can support two of the same coffee shops? Leave your thoughts in the comments!

Caleb J. Spivak

Caleb J. Spivak

Caleb J. Spivak

Caleb J. Spivak

5 Responses

  1. two coffee shops, neither of them on the outside of the building available to the general public… nice.

  2. While this provides another coffee option in downtown, I’d prefer to see less chains and more local, specialty coffee shops.

  3. Actually, a number of things are incorrect in the article and comments.

    1. The second store will be in the Suntrust Plaza lobby while the first store is in the Suntrust Garden food court: 2 separate buildings with over 10,000 people in the 2 buildings alone not counting the thousands of other people who work in adjacent buildings that are accessible through the bridges.

    2. Both stores are/will be accessible by anyone who wants to go inside. If you don’t want to walk inside the building, don’t whine, go somewhere else!

    I go to the existing store daily and the staff are so friendly, smiling, and welcoming that it is a true pleasure in a world of mediocre Starbucks that are seemingly everywhere.!

  4. HERE HERE Yossi!
    This location has the best people!
    Go there & compare and you’ll not be let down. Dare to compare to DD across the hall & you’ll be blown away!
    Opening #2 here is PERFECT! Looking forward to it!!!

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