The company's newly updated list shows 11 of the coffee places being shuttered, far more than most cities.
Chicago, for instance, will only lose five stores.
Which Houston-area stores are gone?
Downtown, there's Dallas & Main and Preston & Fannin. In the Medical Center, the one at Fannin & MacGregor.
Elsewhere, the one near the 59 Diner on Shepherd between Richmond and 59; two on the far west side, at Westheimer & Briargreen and Bellaire Boulevard & Wilcrest; and three up north, at the Deebrook Mall, the North Freeway near the Tidwell exit and the Tomball Parkway & Antoine. Finally, two on 59 in Rosenberg will close. (Rosenberg needed two? What does it think it is, the intersection of Gray & Shepherd?)
Houston didn't get hit as hard as the Dallas-Fort Worth area, partly because the Dallas-Fort Worth area includes such a big geographic area filled with suburbs dying to be upscale, sophisticated places that would have a Starbucks.
By our count we come up with 29 Metroplex closures, depending on how you define Metroplex.
-- Richard Connelly
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