Saturday, September 29, 2012

New Wendy's

It appears the Wendy's on East Walnut will move into a newer building going up just west of the currently location, on the spot where Taco Bell used to stand.  The current building, while still open for business, has a "For  Sale" sign on it, with one of the selling points sales of $1.5+ million annually.

In the late 90s, that stretch of East Walnut had the second largest concentration of fast food restaurants in Carbondale, with Taco Bell, Popeye's , Wendy's and one or two others there.  Now, all, with the exception of Wendy's, have either closed or migrated further east to the Main/Giant City Road area.

5 comments:

  1. I wonder if they can stop the back parking lot from flooding, whenever it rains? The Taco Bell used to have incredible water problems on the North side.

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  2. Great, now the town will have another empty unsellable franchise restaurant building blighting its most traveled street!

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  3. You are overstating, E. Main is far worse than E. Walnut, isn't it? Says the man who just bought a blighted building on E. Main? ;)

    If the price is right, it will be a good home for someone. Just a matter of buying it right.

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  4. That taco bell sure sold in a hurry...

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  5. Everything would be fine if you'd just take Poshard's advice, and go outside to pick up trash.

    http://carbondazegazette.blogspot.com/2012/08/president-poshard-on-siuc.html

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