May 5, 2025 • 2 mins
ABC's Jim Ryan reports on this new store in Brownsville, Texas, and why it could be the wave of the future!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
At about eight thirty eight, Let's check in with Jim
Ryan ABCNE is cool story you've got this morning, Jim
about the very first ever Starbucks opening a three D
printed coffee shop. How does that work.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Hey, Mike, Well, if you're familiar with how three D
printing works over the last ten fifteen years, we've seen
there's a lot of products that are created this way.
Plastic products that are created by laying down layer after
layer of plastic until you come up to the proper
height to computer designates and designs. This thing. Same holds
true for three D printed buildings.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Now.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
It's been done with some housing units around the Austin
area as kind of an experiment, but this is the
first time that it's been done with a Starbucks location
of fourteen hundred square foot drive through and walk up
Starbucks in Brownsville, Texas, down right down on the southern
tip of the state. It's took about four months to
build it one point one million dollars, which apparently is
(00:56):
cheaper than the U typical Starbucks store and was in
a more timely way. So this may be the wave
of the future. Starbucks hasn't said whether it plans any
more of these three D printed coffee shops.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
So there's got to be a downside. If it's cheaper
and it's faster, I don't know, four months is faster
to get up a Starbucks operation or not. But if
it's cheaper and faster, then let's you know, let's start
cranking out three D printed buildings everywhere.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Yeah, yeah, that's probably the wave of the future. And
in fact, this may be the way that buildings are
put up on Mars and on the Moon in the future,
because you know, you can injury the material that's there. Yeah,
that's that's kind of the theory. This could be the
direction it's going. So yeah, I would expect that this
will be expanded over the years to come. And in
construction downside, well, you don't need as many framers or
(01:46):
other skilled workers, glass workers, you know, people involved in
a typical construction project. Could put them out of work.
What's more, some people think a three D printed building
is kind of ugly. If you've seed, it looks like
two you know, a two toothpaste. There are a tube
that's on top of each other over and over. It's
kind of that grayish beige concrete color and not a
(02:09):
lot of variety to it in the curved corners and
all that. So yeah, that may be announceident Maybe other
people love the look of it.
At about eight thirty eight, Let's check in with Jim
Ryan ABCNE is cool story you've got this morning, Jim
about the very first ever Starbucks opening a three D
printed coffee shop. How does that work.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Hey, Mike, Well, if you're familiar with how three D
printing works over the last ten fifteen years, we've seen
there's a lot of products that are created this way.
Plastic products that are created by laying down layer after
layer of plastic until you come up to the proper
height to computer designates and designs. This thing. Same holds
true for three D printed buildings.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Now.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
It's been done with some housing units around the Austin
area as kind of an experiment, but this is the
first time that it's been done with a Starbucks location
of fourteen hundred square foot drive through and walk up
Starbucks in Brownsville, Texas, down right down on the southern
tip of the state. It's took about four months to
build it one point one million dollars, which apparently is
(00:56):
cheaper than the U typical Starbucks store and was in
a more timely way. So this may be the wave
of the future. Starbucks hasn't said whether it plans any
more of these three D printed coffee shops.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
So there's got to be a downside. If it's cheaper
and it's faster, I don't know, four months is faster
to get up a Starbucks operation or not. But if
it's cheaper and faster, then let's you know, let's start
cranking out three D printed buildings everywhere.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Yeah, yeah, that's probably the wave of the future. And
in fact, this may be the way that buildings are
put up on Mars and on the Moon in the future,
because you know, you can injury the material that's there. Yeah,
that's that's kind of the theory. This could be the
direction it's going. So yeah, I would expect that this
will be expanded over the years to come. And in
construction downside, well, you don't need as many framers or
(01:46):
other skilled workers, glass workers, you know, people involved in
a typical construction project. Could put them out of work.
What's more, some people think a three D printed building
is kind of ugly. If you've seed, it looks like
two you know, a two toothpaste. There are a tube
that's on top of each other over and over. It's
kind of that grayish beige concrete color and not a
(02:09):
lot of variety to it in the curved corners and
all that. So yeah, that may be announceident Maybe other
people love the look of it.
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