"Olive Garden applies for building permit in East Anchorage"

Olive Garden Italian Restaurant, a popular chain Outside, applied this week for a building permit for a restaurant in the Tikahtnu Commons mall in East Anchorage, says a city building official.

But Cook Inlet Region Inc., partner in ownership of the mall, is not ready to confirm Olive Garden is coming.

"All I can say is we've been in ongoing talks with Olive Garden," said CIRI spokesman Jim Jager. "At this point I don't have a deal to announce."

He said he hopes to announce later this month final deals with both a restaurant and a "junior anchor" -- a store smaller than Target or Kohl's but bigger than a shop.



Read more: http://www.adn.com/2011/05/05/1847738/olive-garden-applies-for-building.html#ixzz1LXYC2I2u



:P We are somebody!

We have an Olive Garden. I read they are putting a Pit Bull breeding farm next to it.

:shrug:

What did those poor dogs do to deserve being next to an Olive Garden?

Does the pit bull breeder offer circumcisions as well? If you're going to have the nexus of DU Lounge flamewars in East Anchorage then you might as well cover the field. They could have an Asian woodcarving store in the Commons too!

Edit: Halfway though I changed what I was going to say resulting in subject line/post-text logical disconnect.

I guess I will finally get to find out what all the hullaballo is about! Eventually...whenever a new national eatery opens up it is usually packed for the first few months! Tikahtnu is just down the street from us so we'll probobly go soon...if it really opens up!