Future more Accessible Spaces

As Jordan Valinsky and Eva Rothenberg report in “Here’s What the Starbucks of the Future Looks Like” (2024, CNN,https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/17/food/starbucks-accessible-store-design/index.html ) Starbucks is making big changes, ones that should make their sites more pleasantly accessible by all. Valinsky and Rothenberg share that accessibility-augmenting design elements to be used include “softer indoor lighting that ‘minimizes glare, shadow patterns and backlighting.’ . . . The store design will also take acoustics into account by using materials that minimize background noise or echoes, which…

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