halibut sinclair said:
PS3D said:
About a year ago, Project Lonestar, a Dairy Queen franchise closed some two dozen stores (and they weren't in isolated areas, either, they included places like Waco and the Dallas-Fort Worth area) among conflicts with the parent company, namely in lack of remodeling stores and royalty payments. Given how out of date the Highway 21 location is (the Villa Maria store is renovating, the CS one has renovated, not sure on the others), I would bet that this is some sort of conflict with the parent company or already a money-loser and that's why they're closing.
Repeating for you;
They mentioned any future medians as a potential problem with finding a new location. The current location is being encroached upon by the Big 6 project. I read that the office at the Motel 6 and the Bryan Food Exchange (former Nuche's Grocery) are also going to have to move/close.
Huh, looks like Dairy Queen, the gas station, and Motel 6
are indeed in the right of way (notably, the only buildings to do so), and the McDonald's is able to utilize Bluebonnet Street.
https://ftp.txdot.gov/pub/txdot/get-involved/bry/sh6/Central%20BCS/052025-sh6-layout-01.pdfThat still doesn't explain why they've refused to build any new restaurants in decades. (And why is the press release is so poorly copy-edited?)
BiochemAg97 said:
Well, since massive 5 year highway projects just don't suddenly start and they acquire right of way long before the project, it is reasonable to assume the building owner knew of the loss of location for a while now. Kinda dumb to remodel a location right before it has to close because of immanent domain.
Then why muddle the reason with medians? TxDOT ROW acquisitions are common in Houston, the medians (or "possible medians"), that should be the reason first and foremost. They're losing the site due to the Highway 6 project, true. But they're still making an excuse as to why they haven't built a new restaurant since...well, whenever they built that restaurant, almost 50 years ago.