Two new Starbucks locations are coming to the Beaufort area. But, they won’t be here until sometime early in 2026.
Lady’s Island has been growing quite a bit over the past few years, and even into 2025 it will see more growth. Now the Island will be growing even more as a new stand-alone Starbucks is planned for a site along Sea Island Parkway that we told you about last spring.
Yes. Starbucks. On Lady’s Island. Sounds weird, and a bit out of place, doesn’t it?
Not these days.
There’s been lots of growth, and it seems as though the island is running out of room. First, Publix moved across the street a few years ago. Then WalMart and its adjacent shoping center happened. Then Wendy’s appeared. Then Harris Teeter opened in the old Publix spot. Then an Auto Zone popped up, followed by a discount tire store going in right next to it.
Now, a Starbucks. Actually, one of two that are planned for the area.
Carolina Retail Experts, a Charleston-based commercial real estate company, said on Twitter that they represented Starbucks in securing the new location at Sea Island Parkway and Ferry Road on Lady’s Island in Beaufort SC.
📣 It’s #DealmakerMonday! 📣@Starbucks is coming soon to Sea Island Parkway & Ferry Road on #LadysIsland 📍 #Beaufort, #SC.
We’ll be taking our coffee breaks on that covered patio 😍
🔗 https://t.co/ml3BTAatc7#CRE #Retail #CommercialRealEstate #TenantRep pic.twitter.com/NwZdtdWDoG
— CarolinaRetailExperts (@CarolinaXperts) July 17, 2023
The spot is currently a wooded area across from both SouthState Bank and Sea Island Carts, a local golf cart dealer.
We received an update on the time frame on the construction of the new spot.
It is now planned to open in March of 2026
Details from the site plan are:
This project will be developed on three lots that will ultimately be consolidated into one lot and consists of constructing a 2,497 SF one-story coffee shop with dual rear-loaded drive through lanes for a 22 space queue. The coffee shop building has an attached 821 SF covered patio on one end and a covered 300 SF service yard on the other end and also includes a separate 200 SF one-story employee station, two pergola structures on the property corners, landscaping, raingarden, lighting, decorative walls, dumpster enclosure, parking & services drives and associated infrastructure.
This will (soon be) the fourth Starbucks in the Beaufort area. One is located at Beaufort Town Center, at 2007 Boundary Street, the other is inside the new Harris Teeter Supermarket, and this one will be within walking distance of the Harris Teeter location.
The other?
Beaufort Station, of course.
We were told by local management that there will be another Starbucks location opening up at the new Beaufort Station shopping center sometime in early-mid 2026.
Here are two images we took, showing exactly where the new construction for the new Starbucks is planned on Lady’s Island.
