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Starbucks lists 28 Dallas-Fort Worth shops it will close 
04:45 PM CDT on Friday, July 18, 2008
More than two dozen local Starbucks will be shuttered between now and mid-2009 as the coffee giant contracts to shore up its sagging finances.
Late Thursday, Starbucks released a list of 600 outlets slated to close nationwide.
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The 28 area shops on the list will affect coffee drinkers from Fort Worth to Plano.
At least three stores in neighborhoods and suburbs south of downtown Dallas will close.
On average, each store employs about 20 full and part-time workers.
Starbucks will try to place many of the workers at nearby outlets, a spokeswoman said, and the others will be eligible for a severance package. She declined to give details of the package.
Joshua Boulten, a shift leader at a Starbucks on Greenville Avenue, said he's already made plans to leave the company for an independent coffee shop nearby. Some of his 15 co-workers are hoping to transfer to another Starbucks, he said.
Mr. Boulten gave Starbucks high marks for sharing information with the staff, adding: "What they're doing is better than just telling people, 'In three to nine months, you're gone.' "
Employees will not be given an exact date until 30 days before the doors shut, Mr. Boulten said.
Late Thursday, Starbucks released a list of 600 outlets slated to close nationwide. Here are the 28 North Texas outlets on the list:
ARLINGTON
• 1201 W. Arbrook Blvd.
• 5435 S. Cooper St.
• 2733 N. Collins St.
• 4645 Matlock Road
DALLAS
• 3715 Greenville Ave.
• 5500 Greenville Ave.
• 8687 N. Central Expressway
• 9090 Skillman St.
• 14891 Preston Road
• 5631 LBJ Freeway
• 7995 LBJ Freeway
• 3403 W. Illinois Ave.
• 3431 Camp Wisdom Road
DeSOTO
• 900 N. Hampton Road
DUNCANVILLE
• 107 S. Cedar Ridge Drive
FARMERS BRANCH
• 13901 Midway Road
FORT WORTH
• 4603 Camp Bowie Blvd.
• 4800 S. Hulen St.
• 6221 McCart Ave.
FRISCO
• 5605 FM423
• 6801 Warren Parkway
GARLAND
• 470 Coneflower Drive
MESQUITE
• 2228 Town East Blvd.
PLANO
• 8600 Preston Road
• 340 Coit Road
• 811 N. Central Expressway
• 1881 Central Expressway
RED OAK
• 502 N. Interstate 35E
SOURCE: Starbucks
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