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| Bookie's Paperbacks is open after surviving a run-in with a car. |
By Bob Bong
Southland Savvy
Bookie’s Paperbacks is the second area business to survive a
run-in with a vehicle this month.
A motorist plowed into the bookstore on Aug. 12 and knocked
out a wall, front window and front counter at 2419 W. 103rd St. in
Chicago’s Beverly community.
“The store was crowded, but miraculously, nobody was hurt,”
said owner Allison Platt.
“We were closed for three days while we cleaned up,” she
said. “Now we’re open for business again.”
Platt said a brick mason was at the store last week to start
putting the wall back up.
For information, visit Bookie’s Paperbacks online or checkout their Facebook page.
Earlier this month, the Hostess/Wonder Bread outlet store at 87th Street and Ridgeland Avenue in Burbank was hit by a car after hours. An employee was in the back of the store but no one was injured in that incident.
Brookside Marketplace Expansion
DDR Corp., which purchased Brookside Marketplace in Tinley
Park earlier this year, has proposed adding a 23,344-square-foot free-standing
building for an unnamed nationally known retailer.
The development would be built between the Best Buy parking
lot and a small strip of stores to the south.
It would be the first new development by DDR and the first
for the shopping center since an expansion last year opened up space for Old
Navy, Home Goods and Five Below.
Palos McDonald’s
Being Demolished
The McDonald’s at 7100 W. 127th St. in Palos
Heights closed Saturday afternoon and demolition was to begin today on the
fast-food restaurant.
Once the site has been cleared, work will begin on a new
McDonald’s that will feature a new design. The children’s play area will
disappear but the new building will have side-by-side ordering lanes, an
upscale interior, free Wi-Fi and laptop charging stations.
Construction on the new McDonald’s should be complete by
late fall or early winter.
The work is part of a nationwide remodeling campaign by
McDonald’s and its franchise owners. Older McDonald’s have been torn down and rebuilt
in recent months in South Holland and Munster, Ind.
Free Gyros on Tuesday
Our deal of the week comes from Kronos Foods, the purveyor
of meat and other foods to many Greek restaurants in the Southland, which is offering
its fourth annual free gyros day on Tuesday, Aug. 28.
Participating restaurants also will be
taking donations for the Fisher House Foundation’s Help Yourself & You Can Help a Hero campaign to raise money for
Fisher House on the campus at Hines VA Hospital in Maywood.
This year, the top four restaurants
whose customers raise the most money for the Fisher House Foundation will each give
a free Kronos T-shirt to the first 100 customers who order a gyros sandwich on
Tuesday, Sept. 25. The restaurants will be announced on Facebook, Twitter and
Kronos’ website.
Participating restaurants can be found
at the Kronos website but they include Bees Steak and Lemonade in Country Club
Hills, Goody’s & Gyros in Homer Glen, Grill King in Palos Hills, Johnny’s
Wee-Nee Wagon in Markham, Kojaks in Burbank, Nick’s BBQ in Palos Heights,
Burbank, Homer Glen, Romeoville and Tinley Park, Pop’s in Lockport, Crown
Point, Dyer, Tinley Park, Romeoville, Orland Park, Mokena, Homewood and Palos
Heights, and The Original Babys in Country Club Hills.
Rosati’s Closes in
Tinley, to Relocate
Rosati’s closed recently at 171st Street and
Harlem Avenue in Tinley Park, but a spokesman for the company said the
franchise would be reopening soon at 76th Avenue and 159th
Street in the village.
Pure Core Nutrition Opens in Orland
Owner John Ziccarelli recently
opened a Pure Core Nutrition health store at 15880 S. LaGrange Road in
Orland
Park. For information, call 708-403-1000.
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 www.southlandbusinessnews.blogspot.com.
