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While you wait in a quick moving drive-thru line this weekend to get Portillo’s at Parkway Pointe, could you soon have another high-end fast food option? The State Journal-Register is reporting that the old Baker’s Square Building on Freedom Drive has been sold to the Tartan Realty Group-A Chicago based retail brokerage firm–for a little over a million dollars. Baker’s Square abruptly closed last January, and maybe the fact that I personally didn’t noticed they had closed until the pandemic started in March probably speaks volumes as to why Baker’s Square closed in the first place.
The group will be free to do as they wish with the building, but the exciting part is that Tartan is a founding partner in the growing Chicago high-end burger chain Meatheads Burgers. Meatheads has already expanded into Champaign and Bloomington-Normal, and a friend of mine who shares my addiction to In-N-Out Burger swears that Meatheads is as close as you get in the Midwest.
No comment yet from the group as to what their plans are for the building, but I say let the lobbying for a Meatheads begin!
