Texas Roadhouse Construction Update, 5/2016

Just a few other photos from this past Sunday. As of 4 PM today, Texas Roadhouse is open. The landscaping is complete, the parking lot is paved and striped. If you love the food, fantastic. If you don’t, well, at least it’s bringing tax money into municipal coffers.

For me personally, it’s been kinda cool to watch this from start to finish – I broke the story on the Voice in March of 2015, and have been keeping tabs on it since. I didn’t realize it was due to open today until taking photos this past weekend, so once again, it became a popular article for the Voice’s website.

The $1.35 million project at 719 South Meadow Street was formerly home to Cellular One, a 1990s one-story masonry building that was demolished in 2013. The restaurant was originally slated to open in Q1 2016, but construction started a little later than anticipated last fall.

Texas Roadhouse corporate developed the site, leasing the land from plaza owner DDR Corp. of Ohio. GreenbergFarrow of suburban Chicago is serving as an architectural consultant for the project. Edger Enterprises of Elmira served as general contractor.