Starbucks plans to open its first shop in Allston next month.
The coffee chain is scheduled to debut on May 1 in a 2,000 square-foot space at the corner of Commonwealth Avenue and Griggs Street, said Bruce Percelay, chair and founder of The Mount Vernon Company, which owns the property.
The grungy old industrial garages and warehouses that lined the two Allston blocks have vanished. In their place: 200 new, luxury ecofriendly apartments — 100 more will open soon — with one-bedroom units going for up to $2,100 a month.
The Joshua Tree bar and restaurant in Allston has closed permanently and a deal is in the works for a prominent Boston development and real estate firm to buy the property.
A PILE of dirt sat at Barry’s Corner in Allston last Friday. It didn’t look like much — it was just dirt, after all — but waves of Boston officials crowded around the heap of frigid earth, and posed over the thing, grinning.