Signage OK’d for Starbucks coffee shop

The Saukville Plan Commission last week approved signage for a new Starbucks coffee shop under construction on East Green Bay Avenue near Walmart.

The commission approved a 2-foot-by-19-foot-4-inch wall sign with the Starbucks name; two 71-inch-square illuminated wall signs with the Starbucks Siren logo; a 15-by-31-inch “Drive Thru” illuminated ground sign; a 3-by-7-foot freestanding menu kiosk; and a 6-foot-high, 3-foot-wide monument “Drive Thru” sign.

The 2,700-square-foot Starbucks at 827 E. Green Bay Ave., where the Mid-City Quick Mart gas station was located, is expected to open in October, owner Ramkrishna Subedi said Tuesday.

“That’s our hope, but we don’t know how the weather is going to be,” he said. “I wish we could finish sooner, but there are only so many days in the week.”

According to a site plan, 20 parking spaces will be available on the Starbucks property. Trees at the southeast corner will be removed and a new retaining wall built.             

The current east entrance to the site on Market Street will be closed and access will only be through the Walmart parking lot.

Elm Grove-based Noby Saukville LLC purchased the half-acre property from First Bank Financial for $365,000, according to the Ozaukee County Register of Deeds.

First Bank Financial bought the foreclosed property in a sheriff’s auction for $760,000 in September 2018. 

Underground gasoline storage tanks have been removed from the site.