Manteca is likely a few months away from the final inspection on what will be the city’s sixth free-standing Starbucks.
City building inspectors share the same office suite as municipal planners who are now processing a small commercial center application that is proposed to be annexed by what become Manteca’s seventh Starbucks.
If you count the Starbucks counters inside Target and Manteca, the Seattle-based coffee chain will have nine locations if the latest one proposed next door to the Union Road fire station just off the 120 Bypass is built.
The site had been proposed for a Starbucks before but the city rejected the application.
It was rejected as the queue lane for vehicles for the drive-thru window was inadequate based on the proposed location of the Starbucks on the site and its length capacity.
A redesign and an addition of a second drive thru lane addressed those two issues.
The overall project is also expected to include space for three additional commercial suites.
Given the proposal is at the T-intersection of Daniels Street and Union Road that has been a problematic intersection for years with sightline issues for those turning onto Union off of Daniels, the city will need to look at traffic flow modifications.
The lookover will also need to take into account; the movement of fire engines in and out of the adjoining station.
If the commercial complex is built with a Starbucks, it will give Union Road three Starbucks locations within a three-mile stretch.
It also would mean five of the city’s seven freeway interchanges between Highway 99 and the 120 Bypass will have Starbucks locations.
The two that do not are Austin Road on 99 and McKinley on the Bypass.
Dutch Bros breaking
ground on 3rd location
California Gold — the development firm for the Marketplace at Main that is being anchored by Save Mart — is expected to turnover keys for tenant improvements for the sixth Starbucks near the center’s main Atherton Drive entrance as well as an adjoining Chipotle Kitchen.
It is the same development firm breaking ground either in July or August on Manteca’s third Dutch Bros location plus a Tractor Supply Co. store on North Union Road next door to the CVS Drug Store.
Commercial real estate agents have indicated they fully expect more Starbucks and Dutch Bros locations to pop up in Manteca in the coming years.
They noted the McKinley interchange on the 120 Bypass that opened several years ago is prime location.
Not only are there more than 2,000 new homes that have been added to Manteca in the last three years south of the interchange, but more are on the way.
Almost all of those homebuyers — and others that bought homes in adjoining developments when they were new in the prior five years — get on the Bypass to commute west to the Bay Area.
Due to the elevated nature of the 120 Bypass at that point, areas zoned for commercial will have high visibility to snare travelers.
There is already a development proposal on the southwest quadrant of the McKinley/120 Bypass interchange for a 406-unit mini storage with two quick service restaurants pads with drive their windows that would be suitable for a Starbucks.
To contact Dennis Wyatt, email dwyatt@mantecabulletin.com
