Buffmeat recently announced that a new restaurant is going in to the Arbor Day Foundation building at 12th and P, but he isn't yet able to say which restaurant. The Missus hoped for Jason's Deli, while I put in a plug for PepperJax Grill. According to an anonymous commenter at Biz Buzz, it will in fact be a new Panera. We'll have to wait for the official announcement to verify that claim.
Frankly, I think that location is a great spot for any of those three possibilities. You know the city and the Downtown Lincoln Association are rooting for a successful restaurant to go in there because it helps give just a tiny boost to the P Street Marketplace concept they've been pushing with little success these past several years.
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A friend who works at Arbor day mentioned the joys of panera’s construction last week.
How exciting! A taste of the South of Lincoln right here in downtown!
For me, it will be a taste of home. Panera is known as St. Louis Bread Company in their home in St. Louis.
The first city where they expanded was Chicago, and “St. Louis” anything doesn’t sell in Chicago.
Did I miss the announcement but it looks like the Panera closed at 84th and Holdrege? The signs are down and it looked like the chairs were stacked up. Why would they open another location in the wake of that?
I can tell you there will be a PepperJax Grill in the development on the South side of Pioneers between 70th and 84th. I know that for a fact. The more good food the better!
84th and Holdrege was a Braeda, not a Panera. Their lease was up and they apparently chose not to renew.
Great to hear about PepperJax. The only place I could see where it could go would be east of the Advanced Imaging place on the dirt lot there.
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