Barrow County residents are likely to “eat mor chikin” in 2010.
Chick-fil-A, Inc., last week closed on the sale of a one-acre site off Ga. 316 where a new restaurant will open as soon as April 1 across from the Barrow Crossing retail center.
It is one of only five new Georgia locations that are planned by the company in the upcoming year, said Chick-fil-A spokesperson Brenda Green.
“We’re looking to build a freestanding unit there sometime during the second quarter in 2010,” she said. “It’s just a good business decision. There are great retailers there and we are looking forward to building out further in Georgia.”
The recession apparently isn’t reducing consumers’ taste for Chick-fil-A products.
“We hit $3 billion in sales last week,” Green said.
Wayne Bartlett of Maynard & Bartlett Realty Group LLP said the sale of the 1.23-acre site closed Dec. 10. The seller was K & J Properties LLC, which owns three acres at that location, according to tax information posted on the county government’s web site. The sales price will not be public information until the new deed is recorded.
Chick-fil-A coming to Hwy. 316
Chick-fil-A should do very well in Barrow County, Bartlett said.
“Once a week or every couple of weeks, somebody will ask me, ‘When are we going to get a Chick-fil-A,” he said. “Everybody loves that company, obviously.”
A blogger on the Barrow Journal’s web site in early November suggested to one of the Winder council candidates that he make bringing Chick-fil-A here the mainstay of his political platform.
“We need a Chick-fil-A here in town,” the anonymous blogger wrote. “Get one and you would get my vote.”
Bartlett said construction of the new Chick-fil-A restaurant is scheduled to begin in early January.
It will be the second business constructed in the new 160-acre commercial development, “The Gateway at University Parkway,” which is near the intersection of Hwy. 81 and Ga. 316.
Regional First Care, which is associated with Athens Regional Medical Center, Inc., opened April 29.
Bartlett said he hopes Chick-fil-A’s decision will help attract more restaurants and businesses to the commercial development.
“We’re thinking The Gateway will be the new destination for food, hopefully entertainment, and shopping of all sorts,” he said. “We believe it will attract a lot of businesses that have been looking to come.”
The new retail area is on the north side of Ga. 316 and about halfway between the Gwinnett and Athens-Clarke County lines.
The franchise operator for Barrow’s Chick-fil-A restaurant has not been selected.
Chick-fil-A’s Green said the company has a “unique” business model that enables an operator to obtain a franchise operating license with an initial investment of only $5,000.
However, the company receives tens of thousands of applications annually from potential operators and the competition is stiff. Information is available at www.chick-fil-a.com.
“Once a week or every couple of weeks, somebody will ask me, ‘When are we going to get a Chick-fil-A,” he said. “Everybody loves that company, obviously.”
A blogger on the Barrow Journal’s web site in early November suggested to one of the Winder council candidates that he make bringing Chick-fil-A here the mainstay of his political platform.
“We need a Chick-fil-A here in town,” the anonymous blogger wrote. “Get one and you would get my vote.”
Bartlett said construction of the new Chick-fil-A restaurant is scheduled to begin in early January.
It will be the second business constructed in the new 160-acre commercial development, “The Gateway at University Parkway,” which is near the intersection of Hwy. 81 and Ga. 316.
Regional First Care, which is associated with Athens Regional Medical Center, Inc., opened April 29.
Bartlett said he hopes Chick-fil-A’s decision will help attract more restaurants and businesses to the commercial development.
“We’re thinking The Gateway will be the new destination for food, hopefully entertainment, and shopping of all sorts,” he said. “We believe it will attract a lot of businesses that have been looking to come.”
The new retail area is on the north side of Ga. 316 and about halfway between the Gwinnett and Athens-Clarke County lines.
The franchise operator for Barrow’s Chick-fil-A restaurant has not been selected.
Chick-fil-A’s Green said the company has a “unique” business model that enables an operator to obtain a franchise operating license with an initial investment of only $5,000.
However, the company receives tens of thousands of applications annually from potential operators and the competition is stiff. Information is available at www.chick-fil-a.com.
and a heck yes on dwin's suggestion for a Dunkin Donuts. although you can buy their coffee at Target.
but hey, with goverment health care just around the corner....who needs to eat right...Right
eat an Apple for once.
And, dreaming about Krispy Kreme is just foolish; they are this close to being bankrupted out of existence.