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The new Starbucks at The Stories, outside the future entrance into SkyTrain's South Granville Station, as seen on Sept. 30, 2026. (Kenneth Chan)

Amid news of a wave of Starbucks closures, a new location has opened along Vancouver’s Central Broadway corridor.

The coffee chain has moved into the ground-floor retail space designated for a cafe in the newly built The Stories tower.

The cafe occupies the building’s very prominent corner with the intersection of West Broadway and Granville Street — immediately adjacent to the future subway entrance to South Granville Station on SkyTrain’s Millennium Line Broadway extension.

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The location is expected to see heavy foot traffic once the subway extension to Arbutus opens in late 2027.

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The new Starbucks at The Stories, outside the future entrance into SkyTrain’s South Granville Station, as seen on Sept. 30, 2026. (Kenneth Chan)

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The new Starbucks at The Stories, outside the future entrance into SkyTrain’s South Granville Station, as seen on Sept. 30, 2026. (Kenneth Chan)

However, this opening does not represent a net gain of Starbucks locations for the immediate South Granville area — it is a one-for-one replacement.

Following the opening, Starbucks has also closed its longtime cafe inside the Indigo bookstore, diagonally across the intersection at the southwest corner.

That cafe was accessible from both inside the bookstore and through its own streetfront entrance.

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The Starbucks at Indigo South Granville is now closed, as seen on Sept. 30, 2026. (Kenneth Chan)

The Starbucks at Indigo South Granville is now closed, as seen on Sept. 30, 2026. (Kenneth Chan)The Starbucks at Indigo South Granville is now closed, as seen on Sept. 30, 2026. (Kenneth Chan)

Developed by PCI Development and completed in 2025, The Stories is a 39-storey, mixed-use tower with retail/restaurant space on its first two levels, 106,000 sq. ft. of office space on the upper levels of its base podium, and 226 secured purpose-built rental homes in the remaining levels of the tower.

A Royal Bank of Canada branch has also reopened at the site, occupying a retail unit near the middle of the tower.

In June 2026, a 19,000 sq. ft. Loblaws City Market grocery store opened on the second level. Its ground-floor entrance is near the eastern end of the building’s West Broadway frontage.

Last week, Starbucks announced it will close about 250 locations across Canada and the United States, representing roughly one per cent of its North American locations. At least three locations in Downtown Vancouver have already closed since the announcement.

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Loblaws City Market opening day; The Stories tower at SkyTrain’s future South Granville Station, as seen on June 26, 2026. (Kenneth Chan)

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Starbucks and Loblaws City Market at The Stories, the future location of SkyTrain’s South Granville Station, as seen on Sept. 30, 2026. (Kenneth Chan)

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Artistic rendering of The Stories’ ground-level corner, with a cafe and the entrance into South Granville Station. (Musson Cattell Mackey Partnership/PCI Developments)

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SkyTrain South Granville Station design concept, April 2021. (Government of BC)

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