Buffalo Wild Wings will move next month from Peachtree Drive in the shopping center at Providence Road and Nifong Boulevard to a renovated space across the intersection in the Rock Bridge Shopping Center. The restaurant will be in the southern end of the building that once housed Nowell’s supermarket.
The renovation by Knoebel Construction started in mid-June and is scheduled to be finished in mid- or late August.
The local franchise of the Minnesota-based restaurant chain is owned by a St. Louis company, A Sure Wing LLC. The restaurant is downsizing — from 6,300 square feet to 5,100 square feet — but spokeswoman Christina Boehm said the new location is better.
“We really want to be able to be seen,” Boehm said. “We were kind of hidden on Peachtree Drive, and we feel that the new location has better visibility.”
The sports-themed restaurant will carry more than 20 draft beers and 18 variations of chicken wings and will have 40 flat-screen, high-definition televisions and at least five projectors.
Buffalo Wild Wings will continue to host the MU sports show Tiger Talk at the new location, Boehm said.
“We hope to capture the local sports fan and be the home for MU sports,” she said.
The Peachtree Drive restaurant will close on a Tuesday in August, and the new restaurant will open on Friday of that same week, she said.
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