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Chicken for the ’hood

Fast-food chicken giant Chick-fil-A is negotiating a deal to open a free-standing store on the southwest corner of Gaston and Garland/ East Grand. It would be similar to the one at Timber Creek (6176 Retail Road, Skillman at Northwest Highway). Although the Gaston deal isn’t done yet, the scheduled opening would be summer 2015. According to Chick-filA’s website, this would be the 17th store within about five miles of zip code 75214 (the new store isn’t listed on the website yet). Chick-fil-A has been looking in the area for years, and at one time was zeroing in on a site farther north on Garland Road.

7340 Gaston

Remedy details revealed

Elias Pope, the founder of HG Sply Co. and Social Mechanics on Lower Greenville, has revealed details about Remedy, his newest concept that’s still under construction next door. For a long time, Pope conveyed that it would be an old-fashioned soda fountain in the old Public House space. Now he’s changing his tune a bit, calling the concept “a neighborhood restaurant/bar that will serve chef created American cuisine.” Pope has teamed up with Danyele McPherson, who will serve as executive chef, along with Guillermo “GMO” Tristan, who will serve as executive pastry chef. They hope to create a menu that is “all about back to basics but with polished technique.” McPherson explains it thus: “This is food everyone has

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eaten before. We want to take these familiar food items and turn them into refined dishes. The menu is inspired by food my mom would make when I was growing up.”

2010 Greenville

214.812.9283

Tick-tock, where’s the clock?

It’s been more than a year since the clock above Dixie House in the Lakewood Shopping Center was taken down during a slew of updates and repairs by Lincoln Property Company, which owns the shopping center. In August of last year, two men came out to dismantle the clock so Lincoln’s construction crews could continue to reface the building. At the time, the men were under the impression the clock was being permanently removed. When the Lakewood community learned the clock had been taken down, people took to Facebook with an outpouring of concerned comments on Lincoln’s residential/multi-family Facebook page. Soon afterward, Lincoln responded via Facebook, saying the clock was “not being removed and that it is currently being repaired.” And then Lincoln once again went dark. Lincoln never gave a timeline for when we could expect to see the clock again. More than a year later, the clock has not reappeared, and calls to Lincoln Property Co. have gone unanswered.

Lincoln Property Co. lpcsoutheast.com

214.740.3300

1 Buzzbrews Kitchen says it found the right fit for a new restaurant in the old Mecca location in the Skillman-Live Oak Shopping Center. Buzzbrews hopes to open in early 2015. Renovations began almost immediately after Buzzbrews signed a lease. 2 A new co ee shop/bakery concept by neighbor Jason Horne, The Bohemian Café, opened in mid-October on Lowest Greenville in the spot where Jack’s Southern Comfort used to be. 3 Five-star chef Randall Warder opened Clark Food and Wine Co. on Lowest Greenville in what used to be the Billiard Bar. 4 After less than a year of business at the northeast corner of Mockingbird and Abrams, Genaro’s has closed. 5 Green Spot Market and Fuels is now open for dinner. The new cafe hours are 11 a.m.-8 p.m. daily. 6 The Seattle’s Best Co ee drive-through in the Timber Creek shopping center closed in October. 7 After a little over two years of serving craft beer and upscale bar food, Park Tavern in the Shops at Park Lane closed. 8 National chain Pet Supplies Plus plans to open a location in what was once the Centennial at Ross and Greenville before it briefly became a Cheers Spirits and Liquors. 9 After 13 years as a tenant in Lakewood Shopping Center, Diana Thatcher, the owner of Beads of Splendor, has boxed up her beads, clasps and wires and moved them to 9047 Garland. 10 A new Starbucks began serving co ee on Upper Greenville, between Lovers and University.

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