Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: THURSDAY, July 1, 1993 TAG: 9307010263
SECTION: CURRENT PAGE: NRV-2 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY
SOURCE: PAUL DELLINGER STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: PULASKI LENGTH: Short
Gibson, 52, also plans to lease space for a weekend auction gallery for antiques and other property, amusement facilities, and for bingo games to nonprofit organizations.
All this will happen perhaps as early as August inside the 22,000-square-foot former Food Lion building in the Pulaski Shopping Plaza at 1110 E. Main St. The building has been empty since Food Lion moved to the Memorial Square Shopping Plaza.
Pulaski Town Council approved a conditional use Tuesday night allowing the multiuse facility in the B-2 general business district.
Since he began working on this project more than six months ago, Gibson has been sidetracked by getting into another business closer to the center of Pulaski's business district and also on Main Street.
Daynell's Delite, a new restaurant, had opened earlier this year on Main Street, but its owners found that it took too much time from their other business enterprises.
Gibson's wife, Nancy, operator of another new Main Street store called Gibson Girl Antiques, told him about the possible closing and how other merchants were concerned about losing the new downtown restaurant so soon after getting it. Gibson leased it from its owners and kept it open.
He will rename it Sonny's Place and expand its hours, he said. The planned re-opening in July of The Renaissance restaurant on Main Street by Paul and Donna Etzel will support downtown businesses with two new restaurants.
by CNB