Current Events

A former Swedish Workingmen’s club, this building is owned by Johnson and Wales. Previously, it was a student-run dining hall with some classroom space, but most recently, as part of J&W’s redevelopment of the area, has a ground floor Starbucks as of fall 2007.

Anecdotes

jde Apr 8 2008 As photo 2 shows, this building was constructed as the Swedish Workingmen’s club. Chestnuts was converted to a Starbuck’s over the summer of 2007.

ABD  This building is currently undergoing renovation. The ground floor will house a Starbucks and CityBurger will be next to it. It is cheduled to open November 2007.

johnvanveen  its a dinning facility for j&w currently and has been. only the 1st floor is for food service (small place were they serve mainly drinks and burgers). the upper floors are classrooms. my dads the manager at Chestnuts.

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