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Two more Starbucks for Ripon
Barnwood demolition
A worker sprays water on the Barnwood Restaurant Wednesday to keep the dust down as a tractor tears into the building that will be replaced by a Starbucks. - photo by Photo Contributed
Starbucks is moving to triple its presence in Ripon.Two new locations are being developed — one at North Ripon and River roads east of the Mistlin Sports Complex in an area that is seeing a surge in home building and the other at the former site of the Barnwood Restaurant at the East Main Street exit on Highway 99. The existing Starbucks at the Jack Tone Road exit at Highway 99 just over a mile north of the future Barnwood location. Manteca, by comparison with five times the population has six Starbucks locations.A demolition crew on Wednesday reduced the 35-year-old Barnwood Restaurant to a pile of rubble in five hours.