The 1,400-square-foot Starbucks in Brownsville, Texas, is slated to open on May 2. Here's what we know about it.

It’s the first 3D printed store in the U.S. The Seattle-based coffee giant with more than 17,000 locations nationwide has never had a store quite like the one opening this week in the Texas city of Brownsville,

These advantages are driving momentum for 3D construction use around the world. A 3D-printed train station that took just six hours to build recently debuted in Japan. Peri-3D, the German company that built the new Starbucks store, has completed at least 15 European construction projects, including residential structures.