We’ve speculated since the mournful closure of Backus Shell — which shuttered and sold to developers March 2015 after 50 years in business at Ferndale and Northwest Highway — about the property’s future, and since May of the same year, we kind of knew that it would be replaced with a Starbucks. (That’s when Darren Backus told us that the developers he sold to, Crestview Real Estate, had been working on a deal to build a Starbucks.)