Southland Savvy
Tinley trustees are scheduled to consider this week a special use permit and variances for an 11,000 square foot Golden Corral restaurant at the southwest corner of 159th Street and Oak Park Avenue in two Brementowne Mall outlots.
Plans for the restaurant are scheduled to come before the Village Board on Tuesday night. A site plan was approved by the Plan Commission on May 17, which also held a public meeting on plans that night.
Preliminary plans call for 152 parking spaces, between 130 and 150 employees and seating for 440 in the restaurant that would front 159th Street in front of Menards.
Golden Corral opened in North Carolina in 1973 and bills itself as America’s No. 1 buffet and grill.
The closest restaurants to the Southland are in Joliet, Bolingbrook and Schererville, Ind.
Requests for more information from Golden Corral were not returned.
Olympic Star Open Again
The Olympic Star restaurant, which closed in April for its first renovations since opening in the late 1970s, reopened its new-look quarters this morning at 7100 W. 171st St. in Tinley Park. For information, call 708-532-8900.
Tinley Cruise Nights Begin Tuesday
Car fans take heart, the second annual Tinley Park Cruise Night begins at 5 p.m. Tuesday in downtown Tinley Park. The free car show runs from 5-9 p.m. every Tuesday through August on Oak Park Avenue from 171st Street to the Metra Station. The show is sponsored by VFW Post 2791 and the Tinley Park MainStreet Commission. There will be music, food and beverages and plenty of cars of all ages and models. For information, call 708-444-5678.
Papa’s Pizza Closes in Oak Forest
Papa’s Pizza closed last week at 16040 S. Cicero Ave. in Oak Forest. The pizzeria had been in business for 40-some years.
Southland Chamber Names New CEO
David Hinderliter was named recently as new President and CEO of the Chicago Southland Chamber of Commerce. He fills a position that has been vacant for more than three years.
A Bourbonnais resident with an extensive executive resume, Hinderliter had led the Kankakee Regional Chamber of Commerce since 1993.
“You have no idea how excited I am to be here,” he said to members and guests at the Southland Chamber Regional Lunch on May 14.
The newly tapped Chamber chief expressed an eagerness to get down to business and push forward in his new position. His work is cut out in an organization that has an 85-community footprint.
If you see a new business in town or wonder what happened to an old favorite, drop me a line at bobbong@hotmail.com.
You can also catch up on Comings & Goings in other parts of the Southland at http://www.southlandbusinessnews.blogspot.com/.
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