KFC coming to North Peoria
I don’t usually read the “building permits” section of the Journal Star, but I was particularly bored over my lunch hour and gave it a gander. Besides learning about all the swimming pools, sun porches and garages being built in town, I was pleasantly surprised to find an alternative to my usual luncheon fast food fare:
8905 N. Allen Road, $450,000, Kentucky Fried Chicken, Ken Brown, applicant.
On the flip-side, I was disappointed and slightly annoyed to find that the rumour of another payday loan business opening up was true. It will take over the old Hardees building.
715 N. Western Ave., $40,000, Title Max, James Gateley Construction Inc., contractor.
I’d still like to know where the new Sonic that was said to be opening “near Bradley University” is going to end up. It’s not that I’m particularly excited about it because I’m not. I’ve never much cared for it, but the curiosity is killing me. Unless they take the Bradley approach, there’s not a whole lot of room for new construction up there. From memory, the only empty lots large enough to accommodate a Sonic are the old Steak’n'Shake or Campustown’s parking lot, but I’m guessing that it will land somewhere along Western. Next door to the new TitleMax, maybe? In place of TitleMax would be ideal.
September 20th, 2007 at 7:07 pm
Maybe they could tear down the old Walgreens at the corner of Bourland and Main to build the Sonic.
We live by the site of the future KFC. A few weeks ago my husband and I were driving by and I asked him to predict what it would be. He said KFC because of the building’s structure. Only the frame was up. He is an architectural draftsman but I am not sure if this was pure luck or skill!
September 21st, 2007 at 6:41 am
mabe sonic will go into the old gas station at the corner of western & main– or is that too far from bradley?
September 21st, 2007 at 8:04 am
I heard some time ago that Bradley was going to use the funds from the sale of the Maplewood houses to buy the gas station, tear it down and donate the land to the Western Ave greenway project.
That’s what I heard, anyway.
September 21st, 2007 at 8:15 am
Is the sonic in E.P. up yet, I know that there was one going in over on that side of the river. I cannot imagine that a Sonic would go in anywhere near Bradley, sorry but the neighborhood is just a bit too rough to place a establishment where folks eat outside and are served in their cars. ( unless it were on campus like Baccis) Take a look at the typical crowd lounging around the shell station, or when you are in the drive through at the hot dog place just check out the guys hanging around near the liquor store. The area is not quite ready for prime time yet. There are quite a few issues that need to be dealt with on main before that type of business will be anything but a magnet for every unsavory character on the bluff.
September 21st, 2007 at 11:02 am
A very informal study of payday loan places and where they are located. http://www.cockeyed.com/citizen/check_cashing/check_cashing.shtml
How far is that from the Liquor Store?
September 22nd, 2007 at 9:11 am
hey, good thing my neighborhood kept the liquor license for the grocery store out of the neighborhood so we could have a check cashing place move in there when it closed, and then another one right down the street, bringing our quarter-mile total to FOUR!
September 24th, 2007 at 11:22 am
Raoul,
The Sonic in EP is completed. It’s at the end of Farmdale Rd, next to the Huck’s and across the street from the Hagerty Industrial Supply showroom. It is always packed. So packed, in fact, that Hagerty is allowing the employees to park in their parking lot.