Hey coffee lovers, Starbucks is on its way back to Willingboro

WILLINGBORO — Starbucks is coming back to town.

A Starbucks was last located in the Willingboro Town Center about 16 years ago and closed in October 2008. Now, another is on its way to the town center and is being built adjacent to where the previous Starbucks was.

The new location is next to Salon Duo, Pizza Hut and other businesses.

The site was previously approved for restaurant use as part of the Willingboro Town Center shopping center, “but that use was never developed and the site is presently a vacant pad," according to a resolution approved by the town's planning board in December.

It may have been a vacant pad at the time, but now a new building is being constructed on the lot.

Plans call for a drive-thru Starbucks restaurant of about 2,676 square feet with a 13-vehicle stacking capacity and a second retail building of approximately 1,980 square feet, the resolution says.

It notes “no tenant or use has been identified for the second retail building.”

Starbucks proposes to be open from 5:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. and to have between 20 to 25 employees, it said.

The resolution mentions that all access to the site will be from Campbell Drive with no access from Route 130.

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It identifies the applicant as Willingboro Town Center North Manaqer LLC.

The planning board granted initial approvals for the project in October when its agenda mentioned Starbucks LDP as a new business at Willingboro Town Center.

The town center has added quite a few new businesses over the last few years, including 1911 Smokehouse Barbeque restaurant, Chase Bank, Roots dispensary and more.

New housing has come into the area over the last decade as well, and residential developments are currently being built within a five-to-six mile radius of the planned Starbucks, including several Burlington Township apartment and townhouse properties.

Another Starbucks is located four miles away from the Willingboro Town Center site, down Route 130 in Delran in addition to another about five miles away in Burlington Township along Route 541.

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This article originally appeared on Cherry Hill Courier-Post: Hey coffee lovers, Starbucks is on its way back to Willingboro