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Top Pot Doughnuts

8611 HILLCREST, SUITE 195 469.232.9911

TOPPOTDOUGHNUTS.COM

Walmart and Sam’s Club

12000 BLOCK OF MIDWAY AT LBJ COMING EARLY 2015

Top Pot Doughnuts now open

Seattle-based Top Pot Doughnuts opened at Hillcrest and Northwest Highway in the space that previously housed Elevation Burger. This is the chain’s first location outside of the Seattle area. The hand-forged, old-fashioned doughnuts tend toward the traditional (no Fruit Loops toppings here). The menu also includes cake doughnuts that come maple-glazed, coconutcovered, jelly-filled or, of course, sprinkled for the kids. The coffee menu’s Ovaltine latte/hot chocolate lends a bit of nostalgia, too. Pickier coffee connoisseurs will appreciate that Top Pot roasts its own coffee.

Walmart and Sam’s Club are coming

It has been more than a year since the Dallas City Council approved construction of the two big-box stores at the southwest corner of Midway and LBJ. The apartments and strip shopping center that formerly occupied the site have been razed to make way for the 180,000-square-foot Walmart and 136,000-square-foot Sam’s Club set to open in early 2015. In a meeting back in January 2013, Glen Meadow Estates neighbors weren’t thrilled about the idea but welcomed the departure of the two apartment complexes that had become a haven for crime.