Starbucks is in the process of opening a new location in Center City, which when completed would be among the largest — if not the largest — Starbucks location in Pennsylvania, writes Ariana Perez-Castells for The Philadelphia Inquirer.

The new coffee shop would be about 4,200-square-feet. This is about the same size of a high school basketball court.

The store is expected to open by November or December.

At the moment, the site still needs to secure a zoning adjustment from the city because of the amount of seating that is proposed. The plan includes having a “community table” that could be booked by customers for meetings and seating for 42 people in total.

The new Starbucks will be located in Thomas Jefferson University Hospital’s Gibbon Building, near the medical provider’s new 19-story outpatient building.

“One of the honors of our lives … is to be there for those hospital associates, the nurses, the doctors, the administrators and be that little glimpse of normalcy, that bright spot. We take that responsibility to heart,” said John Betz, licensee of the location and other Starbucks locations within hospitals in New Jersey.

The new location at Jefferson will have surveillance cameras both within and outside the store, along with a security guard from the hospital’s team.

Read more about Starbucks as it prepares to open new Philly location in The Philadelphia Inquirer.

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