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Downtown Starbucks.


By at least one measure, downtown's South Park neighborhood has arrived: It has its first Starbucks.

A grand opening celebration was Nov. 16 at the new coffeehouse in ground-floor Adj. 1. ground-floor - on the floor closest to level with the ground; "the ground-floor entrance is kept locked"
downstair, downstairs - on or of lower floors of a building; "the downstairs (or downstair) phone"
 space of the South Group's recently opened condo development, Elleven, at 11th Street and Grand Avenue.

"It's a huge deal for South Park," said Tom Cody, principal with South Group. "Starbucks today is like the modern bellwether Bellwether

A leading indicator of trends.

Notes:
A bellwether stock is a stock that is used to gauge the performance of the market in general. General Motors was an example of a bellwether stock, hence the saying "What's good for GM is good for America.
 for a community or a neighborhood being born. It's like the modern equivalent of a town square."

The 1,845-square-foot coffee emporium is already doing brisk Brisk as a proper name may refer to:
  • Brest, Belarus (Brest-Litovsk) Brisk (בריסק) is the city's name in Yiddish
  • The Brisk yeshivas and methods, a school of Jewish thought originated by the Soloveitchik family of Brest.
 business, he added.

Staff reporter Daniel Miller People called Daniel Miller include:
  • Daniel Miller (footballer) footballer for London Stonewall Lions
  • Daniel Miller (anthropologist) (born 1954), anthropologist at University College London
 can be reached at (323) 549-5225, ext. 263, or dmiller@labusinessjourmal.com.
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Author:Miller, Daniel
Publication:Los Angeles Business Journal
Date:Dec 4, 2006
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