Developer seeks to demolish shuttered pizzeria for Popeyes at east Louisville shopping hub
Two new restaurants, including a popular fast food fried chicken chain, are planned for the Springhurst Towne Center.
A Popeyes chicken restaurant is eyed for the land formerly home to Old Chicago pizza restaurant, 10601 Fischer Park Drive, at the far eastern Jefferson County shopping center.
The Old Chicago location closed in early 2020 amid its parent company’s bankruptcy filing.
Another restaurant, a “to be determined,” nearly 1,700-square-foot drive-thru eatery, is also planned for the nearly 2-acre piece of land off Westport Road, according to a development plan submitted to the city’s Planning and Design Services department.
Hogan Real Estate, which is developing the property, declined further comment on the project, saying it’s in the preliminary planning stages.
Under its prior owner, the site was the subject of another development, approved in late 2022, which proposed a Culver’s restaurant and another freestanding restaurant.
Hogan Real Estate bought the property in August 2023 from JR Real Estate for $1.85 million, deed records show.
The strip of restaurants and retail along Fischer Park Drive has seen a handful of changes recently. Next to the proposed Popeye’s site, a former Payless shoe store is slated to become a car wash. Next to that development, a former O’Charley’s restaurant that closed in 2021 was replaced with LaRosa’s Pizza and First Watch restaurant in early 2023.
Growth & development reporter Matthew Glowicki can be reached at mglowicki@courier-journal.com, 502-582-4000 or on Twitter @mattglo.
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