Customers pulling into the gas station at Highland Ave and Willoughby in Los Angeles won’t be stopping in for gas. Thanks to Starbucks, they’ll most likely be driving in for a quick cup of coffee and maybe a tasty treat to go along with their caffeine.

Usually old buildings are destroyed in a city like L.A. But when Starbucks senior store design manager Jonathan Alpert caught wind of this old Gilmore area gas station that had all the 1930’s art-deco trimmings of old Hollywood surrounding it, he had to make it into his magnum opus for the Seattle-based coffee company.

“The curvilinear art deco structure was built in 1935 during the early days of California’s automobile age and the Golden Era of filmmaking in Hollywood. It operated as a gas station for several decades later as a Mobil and Texaco station until it was vacated in the 1990s.”

Alpert and his team spent two years painstakingly restoring to historical accuracy the look and feel of what that gas station must have looked like more than 80 years ago. Notably, the sweeping cantilevered canopies that were falling apart at first inspection (seen here thanks to Google Maps) where made to be structurally sound once again.

Starbucks really does go out of its way to do good. As a publicly traded company, oftentimes the bottom line is more profits for its shareholders. But along the way, if you expand and grow, you want to make sure that you’re doing so in an ethical and responsible way.

Starbucks very well could have bulldozed this gas station and built a more modern building in its place. Instead, Alpert made sure to keep intact the historical integrity of the area and reinvigorate a once dilapidated corner of L.A.