Coming soon: Starbucks Coffee Company has signed a 10-year lease to join developer Russell Mosely’s Long Farm. The lease is for a 2,200-square-foot space in Long Farm Village near the intersection of Airline Highway and Village Market Street. The lease, signed March 7 and filed with the city-parish Clerk of Court’s Office on Tuesday, also contains provisions to extend the contract by four five-year terms. According to the lease, the space includes a drive-thru lane and window, as well as outdoor seating. The lease also grants Starbucks the exclusive right to sell whole or ground coffee beans, espresso and other coffee-based blended beverages in Long Farm Village. Rouses Grocery Store is exempt, as are other full-service restaurants, to sell coffee. Attempts to reach Mosely for comment were unsuccessful.
Grand opening: A new shop is opening in Denham Springs’ Juban Crossing shopping center. Home decor retailer Kirkland’s Inc. will open at 27853 Juban Road. The store will host a grand opening at 9 a.m. on Saturday, June 25. Michelle Graul, the retailer’s executive vice president of stores and merchandising, says in a news release that the new Juban Crossing Kirkland’s is the 15th to open in Louisiana. It’s also the third Kirkland’s in the greater Baton Rouge area. Kirkland’s new location will employ 25 people. It’s one of 385 Kirkland’s throughout the United States. Juban Crossing is located off Interstate 12 near the Juban Road exit. Current tenants include Belk, Old Navy, Movie Tavern and Shoe Carnival, among others.
Thinking outside of the box: A team led by an LSU landscape architecture professor has been selected as one of four finalists for Memorials of the Future, an ideas competition that aims to look beyond the traditional approach of creating memorials and rethink how we develop and experience them. Forbes Lipschitz, an LSU Robert Reich School of Landscape Architecture professor, is leading a team that includes Halina Steiner, also of LSU, Shelby Doyle of Iowa State University’s College of Design, and Justine Holzman of the University of Tennessee. The team created American Wild: A Memorial, which visualizes the National Parks through an interactive, immersive installation of ultra-high definition video and audio recordings. The finalists were announced Wednesday during an event at the National Archives in Washington, D.C. Finalist teams will receive a $15,000 stipend and will work with further develop their proposals during coming months. The winner will be announced Sept. 8.
