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Keller economic development update: new businesses, vacancy at Big Lots, Elm Street timing and restaurant week dates
Summary
City staff reported 2024 business openings, several site-specific updates including a Big Lots vacancy and an incoming Wabi Smokehouse concept, Elm Street construction schedule and a proposed Restaurant Week for July 28–Aug. 3.
City staff provided a broad economic development update that covered recent business openings and closures, retail vacancies, site-specific developments and upcoming promotions.
Staff said five businesses opened on or near Main Street since December — Simply Stylish, Hops Landscaping, The Nutrition Chef, Flint Going Root State Farm (on Hill Street) and Phoenix Salon Suites — bringing the city’s total reported new brick-and-mortar businesses for 2024 to 74. Staff noted the city tracks business closures informally and reported 26 closures in 2024; the city does not require businesses to notify the city when they close, so closure counts are based on certificate-of-occupancy changes, social media monitoring and space refillings rather than a formal registry.
On specific sites, staff said the building known as the Station/Patio Ice House sold and the new restaurant owner has…
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