The Starbucks coffee shop near the corner of Pioneer Blvd. and Falcon Ridge Parkway is closing.

It is one of more than 300 coffee outlets being shut down by the company over the next few months.

This is on top of the 600 stores which were shuttered in 2008.

“Starbucks used several criteria to identify stores for closure that included locations that were not profitable and not believed to provide acceptable returns in the foreseeable future,” a company spokesman said.

“In addition to site and market-specific criteria, consideration was given to the impact of the current and anticipated economic trends.”

The closure comes almost exactly one year after the store opened in April of 2008 in one of the new shopping structures located across the street from Wal Mart.

While the company refused to specify a date, an outside source confirmed that the Mesquite store’s last day will be May 8. [[AD-46-Right]]

It is the second national chain to announce its impending departure from the commercial corner of Pioneer and Falcon Ridge, following the news that Walgreens would be closing its store at that location and moving to the recently renovated store on Sandhill Blvd.

The closure of the Starbucks store, which included a drive-thru, will not affect the three other Starbucks outlets in Mesquite, including the shop which remains open in the Oasis hotel.

The other two Starbucks outlets are located in the CasaBlanca hotel and the Virgin River Casino.