Kebabalicious, one of Austin’s most popular food trailer companies, will finally throw the doors open on its long-awaited East 7th St. brick and mortar location. The restaurant at 7th and Navasota streets has been under construction for more than a year while the company has continued to operate its three trailer locations around downtown Austin. A grand opening celebration featuring live music, free kebabs and other giveaways is scheduled for Nov. 2. Last year, owners Christopher Childre, Krisitan Ulloa and Mark Turk told the Austin Business Journal they had invested more than $150,000 to remake the old 1920’s building at 11311 East 7th St., and had planned for a fall 2012 opening.
A year later than expected, the eatery finally opening in November will offer diners indoor and outdoor seating, wireless Internet, a ping-pong table, hookahs and the same food from its trailer. The first Kebabalicious trailer opened seven years ago after the owners scraped together $10,000 for capital and used a trailer made largely out of spare parts. Source: Original Post
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Austin's daily newspaper is warning commuters of work on Mopac Expressway's horizon. A page-one story in Wednesday's Austin American-Statesman chronicles the $200 million project to add a toll lane to each side of Mopac from Lady Bird Lake to Parmer Lane. Work will be noticeable in early December, with dirt first turning in the area between RM 2222 and U.S. 183. There, a large grove of trees in the median will be removed to make way for the added pavement. The Statesman points out that the project is expected to improve the notoriously slow road that's technically named Loop 1, but for the pain there will be some gain. Construction will take about two years and, on the upside, builder CH2M Hill doesn't expect lane closures during rush hour. On the downside, the three lanes in each direction remaining open will be flanked by concrete barriers and likely have more curves in them than is currently the case, according to the Statesman. And, the article adds, assuming the mobility authority gets approval from the Texas Transportation Commission later this fall, the speed limit on Mopac will be lowered during construction from 65 mph to 55 mph.
After I-35 it's the busiest north-south highway in the area, and past expansion plans have been thwarted by influential neighborhoods and Union Pacific, which runs trains through much of Mopac's center median. Source: Original Post |