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Anyone have any info on when Chipotle on 28th is going to open? Love their building and can't help but think of what a great fit it would for the Medical Mile. I know it will never happen because Spectrum owns the property but the spot next door to the new Lake Michigan CU would be perfect.
I heard that it was opening late '08, early '09. It's not too specific, but Chipotle is apparently planning on a grand opening and media blitz, so you can't miss it when it does open.
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Shameless plug for haunted houses and Halloween events around Grand Rapids: http://www.grnow.com/index.php?option=com_...iew&id=1597. I think there are just under 20 haunted attractions listed and over 50 parties at the moment. With Halloween falling on a Friday this year, most of the big bars like The B.O.B. are having 4 nights in a row of costume parties.
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Any word on potential tenants for this area?
Yes, I just received word that a coffee shop called MadCap will be opening up. Here's what they submitted as their GRNow listing: http://www.grnow.com/index.php?option=com_...mp;link_id=3710
They hope to open in October.
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"A bigger B.O.B.? Greg Gilmore plans tower with condos, hotel, theater"
http://blog.mlive.com/grpress/2008/03/a_bi...e_planning.html
I think he talked about doing this 2 or 3 years ago. My impression was that the Gilmore Collection couldn't come up with financing for the project at that time because they stretched themselves too thin building Blue Water Grill and remodeling Mangiamo! plus opening Red Ball. How much of that is true though, I'm not sure.
Hopefully it'll come together this time.
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Not sure if this was mentioned elsewhere, but a new place called Johnny's Lunch is moving into the old Olive Express location: Johnny's Lunch website
They have quite a few locations on the east side Michigan and also New York and Ohio. The menu is hot dogs and burgers, similar to Johnny Rockets. I wonder why they chose to be located next to The Dog Pit.
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Has anyone on UP mentioned the new building going in two lots down from The Meanwhile? It's going for LEED certified status and will house a new restaurant called The Electric Cheetah.
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A new retro diner opened on Plainfield, just north of Knapp, called Pilar's (in the former Bobby J's location). They have breakfast all day, classic American dishes, Mexican dishes and an ice cream counter. It's also attached to a candy shop. Prices are pretty reasonable; maybe $8 per person for lunch or dinner.
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I am getting really tired of trying to fly into GRR, only to find that the little RJs are totally booked. I wanted to fly into GR on MLK weekend, only to find out that most of the flights on UAL or American from ORD, or on NWA from Minneapolis, were totally full.
Maybe I am spoiled living in a big city, but even our smaller airports (Burbank, Long Beach) feature 737s or Airbus 319s or 320s on most flights. Airlines may love RJs, and they can be fun, but give me capacity any day.
You might want to try flying through Milwaukee on Midwest Airlines. It's a pretty easy airport to navigate and less crowded. All the flights over here are on the small planes also, but they do have 4 or 5 flights per day between MKE and GRR so they might be less full.
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Go Java has opened up in the former Hava Java location at 15 Ionia. They have mostly coffee with a few baked items like bagels. Most the lattes seem pretty well priced, under $3 for a small or medium I think.
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I went by River City Slim's today and they had the doors propped open. It looks like they are merely DAYS from opening, as it looked like all the fixtures and decorations were up on the walls.
Yeah, this place is set to open September 10.
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Ahhh, this:
I wonder what happened. It doesn't look in the picture like there are any tire tracks.
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Whats the deal on the building on the South East side of Division / Fulton? With all this talk about the chunk of land across the street, why has no one ever mentioned this piece??
Do you mean the Junior Achievement Building? I think there's a thread about it on UP somewhere.
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Such a ridiculous price.............
Plus I hear it would take a least another $750,000 for renovations. You're looking at no less than $1.5M total.
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GVSUSean says he has talked to the wife of the owner of the Michigan BW3s and they are in-fact going to put one downtown GR.
I think that's what he's alluding to.
At Festival of the Arts, BW3's sponsored the United Methodist Community House's food booth by providing at least the paper holders for the wings and also had a BW3's employee down there much of the time. While I was at Festival, someone suggested that maybe they thought this is how BW3's is breaking into the downtown market. Personally, I haven't seen or heard of a company sponsoring a food booth like that at before at Festival, since they're all run by non-profits, and I'm not sure that I approve of their method.
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It looks like Marado Sushi will be getting a liquor license in the next couple months.
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Yesterday at the groundbreaking ceremony, David Van Andel said that on the back side of the building facing east there will be a four-story glass wall overlooking Crescent Park. He also mentioned he had some ideas for making some enhancements to the park itself.
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I heard it was supposed to be italian.
It might be a second restaurant; a press release said John State was named executive chef and part of his duty will be to oversee 'launching the signature market fresh restaurant, six.one.six'. In the past, he's worked at Disney's Flying Fish Cafe and California Grill.
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The new restaurant at the JW Marriott will be called six.one.six. Not sure of the type of cuisine or menu yet.
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This is true, employees have been told they will not be expected to open this Friday as planned, if at all. This all went down Monday night at Varnum, and has left a lot of people out of a job. One of the major financiers has backed out for various reasons that I'm not going to get into here.
So at the moment, there's no bar open at American Seating and Level is long gone?
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I think the estimated time of closure is 2 weeks.
Well, at least it's only a temporary closing this time.
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I can't believe the Ottawa Ave exit on 196 is closed again. Does anyone know when this will reopen? The Kent County Roads site hasn't been updated since Jan 31.
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GRNow always keeps a pretty comprehensive lists of upcoming events with links.
http://events.grnow.com/events/
The Meijer Gardens has the Butterflies are Blooming, which we're probably going to do this weekend. They also have the work of Patrick Dougherty going on right now. It's supposed to warm up a bit this weekend (no not Florida warm), but you might be able to get out into the gardens and stroll around.
Thanks, GRDad. Here's a list of St. Patrick's Day events around Grand Rapids and West Michigan.
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My vote for the next exterior to be striped and restored is the building next door...96 Monroe Center I believe.
Ski's Sub shop is a tenant.
That is a hideous looking building compared to the makeover next door.
I agree. Civitas posted a great photo of what that building looked like before 1900 in post #53 in this thread.
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Revealed:
Grand Rapids Restaurant Rumor Mill
in Grand Rapids
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Yeah, I stopped by a couple weeks ago. Here are some photos: My Bar & Grill