A story about business development along Grand Avenue in San Francisco 's South Bay area includes a Wayne State University mention by the executive director of South City 's Chamber of Commerce, who was remarking on how a distressed area of his city is coming alive with businesses. Lance Huntley observed that the only Starbucks he saw while in Detroit last week was in the Barnes & Noble Bookstore at Wayne State University . "I'm used to going a block and a half and finding a new coffee shop," he said. "That's how we do it on the West Coast."