The Smith Center Starbucks
“Don knows, before we even opened The Smith Center, I had a desire to bring a Starbucks to campus, and he said it would never happen,” Martin told the crowd assembled inside the bright new space. “We actually met with Starbucks before we opened, but we were on 61 acres of dirt, surrounded by nothing, so they said, ‘Thanks for asking, but nobody’s going to come here.’ And look at us today: We have a Starbucks.”