WHEREhouse Dance Company in downtown Columbus is moving.
The studio, which opened in June 2013, is moving to 309 Main St. — that’s the old Elks Lodge beside Musselwhite’s Barber Shop. The studio has been at 404 Main St. since it opened, according to owner Kristen Buntin.
“We love the place we’re in,” she told The Dispatch on Wednesday. “It’s our home.”
Why the move?
“We’re just bursting at the seams,” Buntin said.
She was talking about clients. WHEREhouse Dance Company has about 200, according to Buntin. The new location will be about three-times the size of the present site. Upstairs at the old Elks Lodge is a “wide open, gorgeous” ballroom.
“It will be nice to spread out,” Buntin said.
The studio will be in its new location by August, when fall classes begin.
Moving on.
Three Golden Triangle eateries that opened last year have closed their doors.
In Starkville, Taco Del Mar, which was in the Cotton Crossing Shopping Center on Russell Street, has shutdown. Also in Starkville, Crush’n On Nature’s Eatery, which was in College Park Shopping Center on Russell Street, has shutdown. Both opened in the fall.
In Columbus, Cindy’s Deli, which was at 910 Tuscaloosa Rd., in the old Three Monkeys Pizza spot, has closed. It opened in the spring of 2014. According to the restaurant’s Facebook page, it will reopen in an as yet undetermined location.
Lastly, a hodge podge of fast food news.
If you watch TV you have noticed KFC, which opened 75 years ago, is in the midst of a marketing blitz aimed at younger generations. The chain lost its long-standing position as the top U.S. chicken seller to Chick-fil-A in 2012, according to the Washington Post. Now, KFC is looking to make up ground. Part of that involves comedian Darrell Hammond, a former “Saturday Night Live” actor, portraying Col. Harland David Sanders in the chicken giant’s commercials. KFC’s chief marketing officer told the Post this week Sanders was “the person with bling before bling was even a word.”
A delivery service could be part of the shake-up, too.
Yum Brands operates KFC, as well as Taco Bell and Pizza Hut. That company’s CEO Greg Creed told analysts Wednesday there is a potential that all three will be delivering soon.
“What we want to do is get into a test, probably a couple of stores near a couple of college campuses,” Creed was quoted saying in Fortune magazine.
No word on whether any of the KFCs and Taco Bells in the Golden Triangle will be a part of the test.
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William Browning was managing editor for The Dispatch until June 2016.
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