Just got a tip from a reader, who heard from a local business owner that there may be a Pizza Hut coming to the vacant space at 14th and Fairmont, in the Columbia Uptown building. It’s on the east side of 14th, and the space used to be a convenience store with a decent beer selection, which closed last year or so.
I have no idea on the timeline or how certain or far along this is. As with a lot of the places coming in lately (like Z-Burger), I’m of two minds about this — I like to see empty retail spaces filled, but I’m not thrilled it’s a Pizza Hut. Then again, it’s fairly far from the main retail center of the neighborhood so there’s less foot traffic, which means getting a nice restaurant or cool store in this location would be pretty surprising. Pizza Hut, being mainly a delivery place, wouldn’t need much foot traffic to survive.
Your thoughts?
