Wing Zone restaurant will open Monday in Fort Carson’s mini-mall. The sit-down restaurant offers 17 buffalo chicken wing flavors and will serve draft beer. Wing Zone CEO and founder Matt Friedman has partnered with the Army & Air Force Exchange Services to open Wing Zone restaurants on four military bases. The company has plans to [...] [...]
Brunswick Zone XL will open its location near InterQuest Parkway and I-25 Wednesday, April 25. The 50,000-square-foot facility has 36 bowling lanes, a two-story laser tag arena, video game arcade, billiards, large-screen TVs, and a bar and grill. Brunswick has been interviewing and hiring staff for the new location and announced this week that it [...] [...]
When Andrew Jones bought into the Chick-fil-A franchise at the Citadel Mall four months ago, he started hearing from business people downtown that they loved the food, but just weren’t conveniently located. “I heard that and I thought – well, we need to figure out how to make it convenient,” Jones said. So the quick [...] [...]
Freddy’s Frozen Custard & Steakburgers opened the first of four new restaurants in the Colorado Springs area today. The restaurant chain opened in Monument and franchisee Kyle Gerstner said he plans to begin construction on another along the Powers Boulevard corridor in June. Freddy’s opened its first store in 2002 in Wichita, Kan. The Monument [...] [...]
Einstein Bros. Bagels has signed a 10-year lease in the former Mrs. Field’s Cookies location at 32 North Tejon Street. The company has started renovating the location and is expected to open at the end of this year, said First Properties’ Rich Walker, who brokered the deal. The new bagel restaurant will be located at [...] [...]
The new owners of eight Colorado Springs Arby’s Restaurants want to refresh the chain’s image locally and is starting with a $400,000 remodel of its store at 1312 N. Academy Blvd. United Beef Corporation, which is the largest franchisee of Arby’s restaurants in the country, bought eight Colorado Springs locations in 2009, said Kim Thompson, [...] [...]
Darden Restaurants will remodel its two Colorado Springs’ Olive Garden locations. The restaurant near Chapel Hills Mall will get an almost $202,000 facelift while Darden will invest almost $225,000 to update the location at the Citadel Crossing shopping center, according to permit information from the Pikes Peak Regional Building Authority. Both the interior and exterior [...] [...]
A new Burger King is planned for the intersection of Powers Boulevard and Dublin Road. The restaurant will follow a new design model for the restaurant called the 20/20 design, which offers a more modern feel that many of the older locations will soon be changing, said Brian Atzer with Westec Construction, which will build [...] [...]
My Big Fat Greek Restaurant is opening in the long-empty Macaroni Grill location on North Academy. The building at 7605 North Academy Boulevard has been shuttered for more than a year and opened Thursday night for friends and family in its new incarnation. The restaurant’s public opening will be this Monday, Aug. 8. My Big [...] [...]
BJ’s Restaurant and Brewhouse is scheduled to open open in a 7,700 square-foot space at the north end of the University Village shopping center Aug. 30. “This is good evidence of our improving local economy,” said Kratt Commercial Properties President Kevin Kratt, who developed the property along with Tom Cone of Olive Real Estate Group [...] [...]