Busy day on the retail front!
Decaturish is reporting that Dairy Queen is set to sign a lease at the under-construction Trinity Triangle development in the coming weeks. The fate of the Momin family’s franchise has been in question since the stand alone location was closed and demolished last year.
Also of note from the Decaturish post – apparently the Trinity Triangle development has a new name – “Arlo”. You can check out Arlo yourself on the Centro Development website.
Rendering courtesy of ColeJenest & Stone
Talk of back room conspiracy, vendetta against the Momin family, and/or the general destruction of everything that is pure and good in America, has apparently been exaggerated. See you this time next year for a cone.
Oh, except for the fact that the family presumably hasn’t had a business to operate or doesn’t have a business to operate until the development is complete and the store is built out. That’s a long time to go without an income.
I actually find it remarkable that the effort was made to keep this type of business in a new development and, it appears, that the effort will bear fruit. I’m pretty sure I’ve never seen a DQ in a mixed-use urban development like this.
Agreed. Really nice that they’ll have the opportunity to be in the development. But 12 – 24 months is a long time to go without a store.
I don’t know the family personally so I can’t speak to their finances. How do you think this could have played out better?
I don’t know their finances either, Scott, but your first post completely ignored the fact that the family lost a store for quite a long time. There may not have been a direct vendetta or conspiracy, but knowing that they were treated right doesn’t seem like a fair consolation.
They did not own the building and they were on notice for several years that the property was going to be redeveloped. They could have pursued options to operate elsewhere but did not. How exactly were they not treated right?
But regardless, I’m glad this worked out and that they are coming back!
I think Scott was referring to many comments on this site that cast COD staff in a negative light for “siding with the developers” in this deal. If you have a lease and don’t own the land, you know the game. Turns out what staff said would happen is actually happening. Won’t hold my breath on any retractions, though…
FWIW, here’s a quote presumably from the family, as left on Decaturish: “yes we, Momin family will run the Dairy Queen.. We thank you for all your support for the past 25 years and during the whole process of bringing back the Dairy Queen. We just LOVE DECCATUR, THE RESIDENTS OF DECATUR AND THE CUSTOMERS. THANK YOU SOOOOOOOOOOO MUCH.”
That’s some good new right there, I tell you what!
“Walk right in, it’s around the back
Just a half a mile from the railroad track”
great way to link the two, DQ and Arlo.
Arlo? As in Arlo Guthrie? As in Atlanta Regional Living Organizations? As in random choice of names? It’s growing on me already. It could have been something bland like Candler Corner or Trinity Terrace.
hmmm… Arlo’s vw microbus from the Alice’s Restaurant movie has a triangle decal.
If this is the source for the name, then it has to be the most obscure movie reference ever used to name a building.
We’re going 6 levels deep on this one.
I’m guessing that The City of New Orleans never ran through Decatur?
Nope.
Arlo’s City of New Orleans was a cover of the song written by the great, late Steve Goodman.
thank you. still mourn that troubadour!
STG and I are always unintentionally angering each other.
do what?
I thought you were thanking Dave for clarifying my attribution. And I was just referencing back to old conversations we’ve had about getting under each others skin unintentionally.
All in good fun, of course. 🙂
I was thanking Dave because Steve Goodman is a longstanding favorite songwriter of mine and one I consider to have always been seriously under-recognized. No shine off you, I’m pretty sure you hadn’t been born yet when either recording was made and it was Arlo’s that became a hit, so for most people he’s the artist associated with the song.
Got it!
+50 for Steve Goodman, whose cover of “The Dutchman” I play once a week.
The dutchman’s not the kind of man who keeps his thumb jammed in the dam that holds his dreams in. But that’s a secret that only Margaret knows.
Oh Lord now you have Tommy Makem and the Clancy Brothers in my head !
You don’t have to call her darlin’.
Oh, mind your own business!
I’ll take what’s behind door number 3.
Nor, to my knowledge, has there ever been an Alice’s Restaurant here, although the police may have 8×10 glossies of roadside trash with writing on the back.
only counts if it has circles and arrows.
+1
and a paragraph explainin what each one was to be used as evidence against us
The Arlo, eh? Hmmm.
“Where do you live?”
“In The Arlo, in Decatur…”
Welp, maybe not an inspired choice, but I guess it could’ve been worse.
Doing my happy dance!
Shouldn’t that be Diary Queen?
[giggle]
I think we’ll all be calling it something else one fine morning whilst whiling away the hours gridlocked on S. Candler….