LEE â The worldâs largest coffee house chain is coming to Lee.
The Lee Planning Board on Monday night unanimously approved a Boston-area developerâs plans to put a Starbucks in the former Friendlyâs restaurant on Housatonic Street. The highly visible location is just off an exit of the Massachusetts Turnpike.
Meanwhile, the board voted 5-0 to accept for further review the site plan for a recreational marijuana store at what is now the Cork Nâ Hearth restaurant on Route 20 bordering Lenox. The board expects to decide in two weeks whether the project meets local zoning requirements.
Two Connecticut residents and a Lee woman are listed as the principals of Forest Wilde LLC, which is behind plans to establish a pot shop/manufacturing operation at the Cork âN Hearth location on Laurel Lake.
Starbucks Likely To Land In Lee
Diehard fans of Starbucks in The Berkshires have limited choices in terms of locations. The Coltsville side of Pittsfield has three, (one stand alone, one in Market 32, and the other in Barnes and Nobles), the other is inside of Target in Lanesborough.
According to the Berkshire Eagle, the former Friendly s site on Housatonic St. in Lee is most likely to become a Starbucks.
The Charles River Realty Group of West Roxbury outside Boston proposes to renovate the existing building and install a drive-thru window and maintain the walk-up window Friendly’s had, according Casey Birch of Solli Engineering of Monroe, Conn. and Boston. -The Berkshire