Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
Starbucks courts Murrysville
By Tom Yerace
September 6, 2006

Starbucks and Murrysville seem to go together like, ahh, coffee and cream -- and it looks like a match destined to happen.
Murrysville's planning commission Tuesday night heard a proposal for a Starbucks coffee shop along Route 22.

The plan for coffee shop at the site of a former Gulf Oil Co. service station on the northern side of Route 22 was outlined by Randolph L. Bowers of Civil and Environmental Technologies LLC on behalf of the Seattle-based corporation.

"Starbucks is very excited about being here," Bowers said as he left the meeting

The Starbucks would include a drive-thru window, indoor seating for 20 to 25 and outdoor patio seating. The building would occupy 1,750 square feet and have parking for 24 vehicles.
Bowers said the property will be purchased by the Starbucks company from owner Walnut Capital. He said the companies are nearly ready to close the deal.

Commission members had questions about traffic flow around the drive-thru lane, the number and size of parking spaces and meeting the standard landscaping requirement of 20 percent of the lot size.

Bowers, however, did not see those as insurmountable obstacles. Also, he said the site did not appear to pose a problem.

"The tanks are gone and the environmental questions are being handled by American Geo-Science of Murrysville," Bowers said. "I've gotten a preliminary environmental report, and the site is clean."

He said he will return for a site plan meeting the first Tuesday in October with the aim of having the commission's approval at its second meeting two weeks later.

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