Posted on 08/05/2022 5:03:48 AM PDT by Libloather
Hollywood resident Sara Blair has been living in the neighborhood for the last four years and every morning, she would head to the Starbucks on Hollywood Boulevard and Vine Street for her daily caffeine fix.
By Wednesday morning, the green Starbucks logo had been removed from the front of the now-vacant building. The store was pitch black inside and the front doors were locked.
That store is one of six Los Angeles locations that permanently shuttered at the end of July due to "a high volume of challenging incidents that make it unsafe to continue to operate," according to a Starbucks spokesperson, who cited the ongoing mental health crisis, drug use and chronic homelessness as contributing factors.
In addition to the six L.A. stores, 10 locations across the U.S., including in Portland, Ore., Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., and Seattle, were closed. Starbucks employees “in good standing” were given the opportunity to transfer to a neighboring store, the company spokesperson said.
"I'm so sad," said Blair, who works near the former Hollywood and Vine store. "It's my favorite Starbucks."
Blair said that over the years, she had walked by the store and seen the front windows had been smashed in and boarded up. She also recalled one time when she went to get a coffee after work and the store was surrounded by police officers following a "hostage situation," in which someone had allegedly walked into the building with a weapon.
"They keep their doors locked in the morning and when they're closing," she added.
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Why anyone would pay that much for a cup of coffee is beyond me.
Used to be you could have a nice breakfast at a local diner and wash it down with some delicious coffee. No more.
That's a whole lot of words when they could simply have said, "the Soros DA."
Is post 3 sarcastic then? I know “Hollywood and Vine” from the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling (late 80’s-early 90’s). They were the “bad” girls. So I assumed it’s a rough neighborhood.
I wonder how it is on Thirty-Fourth and Vine?
Perhaps "little bottles" were involved?
Catchy song and entertaining movie w/Sandra Bullock.
Nope. Here’s the starbucks that is closing down:
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