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Goody Goody to close

The privately owned property where Goody Goody is located at 2937 Greenville was sold to Centric Capital last year. Broker Robert Williams represented Centric Capital in the sale. Williams says that Centric Capital worked to renew and renegotiate the lease with Goody Goody, but an agreement could not be made. “Goody Goody will have to vacate the property by July 2,” Williams says. This Goody Goody store is the flagship location of the Texas chain and has been in the same location on Lower Greenville since 1969.

Senior living and LA Fitness on Lovers

If you’ve made a trip to the Central Market on Lovers in the last several months, you’ve probably noticed a lot of construction going on all around it. Across Matilda to the east is what looks like a giant crater. That’s where The Tradition-Lovers Lane, a high-end, rental senior living community, is going to be. At this point, it’s set to open in summer 2014. Founder and CEO Jonathan Perlman hosted a dinner to reveal some of the plans for the location. He says it is modeled after his first community on Prestonwood, which has been largely successful for its “resort-style living,” but he’s also learned from some of the things he did during the first go-round and hoping to make it even better. The 7.5-acre community will include a 202-unit independent-living building and a 109-unit assisted living/memory care facility

Also on Lovers, across the street from Central Market between Greenville and Matilda, construction is wrapping up on a 45,000-squarefoot LA Fitness. If all goes as planned, it will be open by August. It’s going to including a saltwater lap pool. To check out their pre-sale membership options, a temporary facility is set up for early membership enrollment at 5500 Greenville, right next to the Vitamin Shoppe.

Fat Daddy’s demolished

It didn’t take long for the former Fat Daddy’s Burger House to be turned into a pile of trash at the northeast corner of Buckner and Garland as part of Pei Wei’s move to Casa Linda Plaza. With this work finished, it’s likely Pei Wei will open this fall.

Snow Pea moves to Northwest Highway

Snow Pea Chinese restaurant officially closed its doors at 2007 Abrams, but that’s not the last we’ll see of the restaurant. Everything has been transferred across the lake to 10518 E. Northwest Highway near Plano Road. The kitchen, the waitstaff and the telephone number all moved to the new location, and Snow Pea is still making deliveries, so you can still order Chinese on those nights you don’t feel like cooking. Kert Platner, owner of the Snow Pea building and also of Times Ten Cellars, says he’ll be looking for a new tenant to take over the vacant spot shortly. Platner bought the building in 2007 and has been hoping to replace Snow Pea with a different tenant for some time. He told us back then that he planned to “get a restaurateur in there to do something great for the neighborhood.”

Housing development under constuction

It’s hard to miss all the construction on Shadyside Lane near Lindsley Park in the Hollywood-Santa Monica neighborhood. Construction workers are completing lot development for 59 single-family homes that will begin to be built this summer. The new development will be called Kensington Garden. Prices for the new homes will start in the $500,000s, and floor plans will be available by the end of August, according to developer Megatel Homes.

Patio dining at Angelo’s Angelo’s Spaghetti House at 6341 La Vista has a new window in the front of the building that opens up, giving the feel of patio dining. The restaurant has been serving Lakewood for 21 years.

Neighbor plans urban farm

In keeping with the increasingly popular “grown local” food trend, neighbor Jake King-Gilbert is planning to start an urban farm in East Dallas called Terra Tech Farms. The farm will be an indoor hydroponics farm, located on Elm, just east of Deep Ellum. Through it, King-Gilbert will provide fresh, sustainable, pesticidefree produce to the Dallas community year-round. The plan is to sell at farmers markets — like the White Rock Lake Market — and to restaurants throughout Dallas, he says. “I have signed the lease on the commercial space, filed all the LLC paper work, built the website (terratechfarms.com), and I have also been growing produce for over a year now, in small batches, to ensure I have a sound business plan,” he says. ”I am very passionate about this and feel that providing the people of Dallas with a truly local option for sustainable produce is important.”

—Compiled by Brittany Nunn

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Goody Goody 2937 GREENVILLE 214.765.6871

The Tradition-Lovers Lane 214.361.2211

TRADITIONSENIORLIVING.COM

LA Fitness 5427 GREENVILLE 214.530.0966

Pei Wei 1.877.782.6356 PEIWEI.COM

Snow Pea Chinese restaurant 10518 E. NORTHWEST HIGHWAY 214.824.4354 OR 214.824.4948

Kensington Garden 1715 SAINT JAMES 214.703.8977 GRANDHOMES.COM

Angelo’s Spaghetti House 6341 La Vista 214.823.5050 ANGELOSEXPRESS.COM

Terra Tech Farms

INFO@TERRATECHFARMS.COM

TERRATECHFARMS.COM

Nothing Bundt Cakes

9440 GARLAND ROAD

214.691.2253

NOTHINGBUNDTCAKES.COM

Urban Vines Wine Bistro

9219 GARLAND ROAD

214.328.9463

FACEBOOK/URBANVINESWINEBISTRO