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WORDS Continued from page 8 crown, they announced a 5-year plan to expand by 1,000 units
to a 7,500 worldwide total (McDonald’s has about 35,000 units
Unfortunately, around the cor- worldwide).
ner at 3rd and Front St. we
are losing another downtown The new CHICK-FIL-A
landmark, the FROG ON A opened in January over by
LIMB PRIMITIVES, which the Car Wash, adjacent to the
is holding a “going out of Taco Bueno. The first three
business” sale. Mark and Jes- tenants (Broken Bones BBQ,
sica are closing the shutters on Postal Annex and Home
their homegrown artistry store where their motto was “Hand- Care Assistance) have oc-
made! Our artisans love what they do and they do what they cupied a portion of the new
love. All of our products are cut, turned, sewed, sanded, paint- shops between the new Sprouts and Ace Hardware and the free
ed, poured, hammered, nailed, fixed, fastened, mixed, matched, standing NEWTON LIQUOR STORE is working on the inte-
batched or baked by human rior space with a late spring opening planned. On the drawing
hands.” board, but not started yet, is a 5,600 square foot LONGHORN
STEAKHOUSE, which will be the fourth in Colorado and the
On Baptist Road, the first of first for the Springs. A part of the Darden group (Olive Garden,
the new collection of small etc.), there are 470 Longhorn restaurants located in 40 states.
buildings under construction Great steaks, grilled chicken, Atlantic salmon and baby-back
just beyond the King Sooper ribs top the menu.
Center has opened a 7-Eleven/Conoco quick service and gas
station. The waiting game is now
over as the owner of the
PALMER LAKE – The town is known for its speed traps and 15-acre parcel adjacent
its fine dining. At the to the Bass Pro has an-
north end and just slightly nounced that he NO LON-
removed from the collec- GER plans to develop the
tion of restaurant choices, proposed COLORADO
the nice little grey build- GRAND RESORT &
ing at 292 W Hwy 105 HOTEL. His dream of a 311 room family resort and 50,000
(between the Post Office square foot water park has been replaced with his current retire-
and the Arts Center) is ment plans and closure of his construction company. Though
about to make a third try still an effective location for a hotel, the new Great Wolf Lodge
at getting it right. It’s first effort was the Amuze Bistro, a high and waterpark one exit to the south pretty much quashes the
end specialty epicurean delight that was followed in 2013 by marketability of a second water park. The parcel has been list-
the Parked Pierogi, which had a good draw around its various ed for sale.
types of Pierogis (Polish dumplings), but even after a one-week
closing and reopening with new investors, failed to make a go The developer of Polaris Pointe, Gary Erickson gave his prog-
at it. Hopefully, the next effort with a German flavored menu ress update to the Urban Renewal Authority and announced
will be a lasting success as April Fullman prepares to open The plans for the start later this year on a bridge linking the northern
STUB. I love German food and I plan on being one of their and southern portions of the 200-acre property as he continues
first patrons to plan for the ultimate 2 million square foot retail center. He
is currently working with an unnamed 40,000 square foot pros-
COLORADO SPRINGS – POLARIS POINTE - More com- pect. That is a somewhat unique tenant size and when you re-
ing to Polaris Pointe (Bass view typical retail footages, the only one I could come up with
Pro Center), with a number is the new Walmart Grocery Stores (?). Place your bets now.
of buildings under construc-
tion. Between the AT&T At the InterQuest Market-
building and the Loaf and place, joining the new wa-
Jug, the recently completed ter park, and adjacent to the
building will be occupied Drury Inn, TACO BELL
shortly by ENT CREDIT UNION, a community credit union has broken ground for a
serving Southern Colorado and the Pikes Peak Region with new restaurant, joining the
more than $4.7 billion in assets and more than 270,000 mem- quick growing collection of
bers. Also in that lot, Wendy’s is charging along with its new fast food operations at this
building with a summer opening in mind. In 2015, WENDY’s location (Freddy’s, Zoup,
dropped to third place in the world of fast food hamburgers,
behind Burger King. In an effort to recapture their second place Continued on page 10
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