Fans of thick burritos and sustainable ingredients take note: Chipotle Mexican Grill is planning to open its new Billings restaurant in April.

Spokesman Chris Arnold of the Denver-based company said the new fast-casual restaurant should open this spring in front of Luckys Market at West Park Promenade.

The Denver-based company isnt ready to announce a specific date yet, he said.

Workers for Langlas Construction began construction of the $563,300 building at 1601 Grand Ave. last September. Chipotle will be joined in the building by another business that has yet to be announced, according to NAI Properties, which is marketing the property.

Founded in 1993, Chipotle is one of the countrys fastest-growing chains and enjoys an impassioned following. The restaurants, which are all corporate-owned, serve Mexican-style burritos, burrito bowls, tacos, chips and salsa and salads.

The chain has made efforts to distinguish itself from regular fast food through its ingredients. According to its website, Chipotle uses only naturally sourced pork and chicken from animals raised antibiotic-free on a vegetarian diet.

In January, the company stopped serving pork at hundreds of its restaurants nationwide after discovering a supplier was not meeting its standards.

The new Billings restaurant would be Montanas first Chipotle. A Missoula restaurant is also under construction.

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A Baker businesswoman is getting big exposure for one of her body-care products.

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DANVILLE (WSLS 10) - Danville residents have a new fast food restaurant to look forward to.

Construction is underway for the first Zaxby's restaurant in Danville. It's located at 176 Holt Garrison Parkway. The restaurant says it will open in the next 30 days and will celebrate its grand opening by giving away a "Fanatic Pack" of 52 "Free Dealz" - meaning a free item at Zaxby's each week for a year - to the first 100 guests.

The new Danville restaurant is the eighth in Virginia. ZAX, Inc., the brand's largest licensee with more than 110 locations, is owned by Zaxby's co-founders Zach McLeroy and Tony Townley. Zaxby's currently operates more than 665 locations in 16 states.

Zaxby's provides chicken fingers, wings, sandwiches, salads and more in what they call a "fun, relaxing atmosphere."

The 3,847-square-foot Danville location will have seating for 90. The location will also offer drive-thru services.

And the location is hiring. Interested candidates should visit http://www.zaxbys.com to apply.

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A Missouri couple is in custody after allegedly leaving an elderly disabled veteran confined to a bed and near death, then stealing his car and shooting at officers who tried to apprehend them.

A Missouri couple is in custody after allegedly leaving an elderly disabled veteran confined to a bed and near death, then stealing his car and shooting at officers who tried to apprehend them.

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Tucked away on a county road, under the mud and brush, rests about 150 years worth of history.

Tucked away on a county road, under the mud and brush, rests about 150 years worth of history.

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A Mississippi Gaming Commission agent was shot and killed at the office during a training exercise.

A Mississippi Gaming Commission agent was shot and killed at the office during a training exercise.

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BUTTE, Mont. -

A new restaurant is popping up in Butte. Park 217 has been under construction for about a month and a half.

Owners of Park 217 hope to open by Valentine's Day. The restaurant will have fine dining and a bar.

The underground space was previously used as the Dodge Brothers Saloon and Eatery. The building was built in 1900.

"It's a beautiful atmosphere it really looks like something you'd see in New York, back east, like something you'd see under a little brownstone, which is kind of a unique little niche in Butte. There's no place in Butte that has this atmosphere and we're really going to work it," said Mike Copeland, the manager at Park 127.

Park 217 is still looking for employees and accepting applications. The owner of the underground restaurant also plans to open a cafe next door after Park 217 opens.

The restaurant will be located at 217 Park Street in Butte.

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Root Five, the lakeside restaurant in Hamburg, served its last meals on New Years Eve. Owner Dave Root is inviting inquiries from qualified operators.

Twenty-two years is a long time, said Root, who took over the building at 4914 Lakeshore Road in 1992. That place burned down, and Root, who was in the construction business, built a new place with a big deck looking out over Lake Erie.

Hes facing relationship problems, but thats not why he decided to step away, he said. Twenty-two years standing in a bar, sometimes you just need a break, he said. Now is the time.

Among his motivations are memories of a veteran bartender and friend, Brian McGinty, who died behind the bar last year. He was 57. I knew him for 20 years, said Root.

Hes not a restaurateur at heart, Root said, but a construction guy who ended up running a place. Ive been muscling through the thing for a long, long time. I turned 60 this year, and I said there are some things I dont want to regret on that last bed of mine. So Id rather go do them now.

He stopped selling gift certificates in December. Patrons can call him at 627-5551 to redeem outstanding ones.

Roots building has 150 seats inside, and another 150 on the deck in good weather. Bands played in a side room. He said hes confident he can find someone to take over the place. Theres no replacing the view.

There are days when a storm would come rolling down the lake, you can see them coming from the west, and just hit the place like a ton of bricks, Root said. Ive had people standing in the dining room with their plates. Id apologize, and say sorry about this. Some of them would say Well hell, that was the most amazing thing I ever saw.

Opening: A former Perkins on Transit Road in Amherst will become an English-style pub by March 1.

Tavern at Windsor Park, at 8444 Transit Road, will be run by Keith Morgan. He helped open the Buffalo Brew Pub, the areas first brew pub, in 1986, where he was general manager until last year.

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A TAPAS restaurant will be the first new name at Southamptons emerging 40m Arts Complex.

With construction work on the Guildhall Square site well under way, the 1m Tapas Barcelona has been announced as the first name to be part of the site.

The new restaurant will create up to 50 new jobs and is set to open this summer alongside flats being built on the former Tyrrell and Green site.

The 21m arts complex facilities, which include two auditoria, galleries and state-of-the-art film and media facilities, is set to open next April.

There will be seven ground floor restaurant units alongside 38 apartments at the site, and developer Grosvenor has announced Delicious Dining will run the 5,000sq ft Tapas Barcelona eatery.

Delicious Dining already runs several of Southamptons bestknown restaurants and nightspots, including Banana Wharf in Ocean Village and the Grand Cafe in Terminus Terrace.

Tapas Barcelona will employ 40 to 50 staff, and feature a range of Spanish, South American and Latin American-inspired dishes.

Delicious Dinings chief executive, Steve Hughes, pictured, said: The restaurant, which will occupy the ground floor, will offer small plates from Spain and Latin America and very much reflect the cultural vision of the development.

As a local business we are thrilled to have agreed terms and look forward to the fitting out phase starting in May 2015 with the official opening in the summer.

City council leader Simon Letts said: The announcement of this first retail letting at the Arts Complex is very positive news.

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For the past several months, the sounds of power tools and the smells of construction materials have wafted from the kitchen at the new ETALIA restaurant on Pennsylvania Avenue.

Until today.

Now, the sounds of laughter of satisfied customers and the smells of wood-fired pizza and Neapolitan cuisine fill the new restaurant, which opened today.

"It puts a smile on my face," said ETALIA owner Stan Herman. "How can you not smile when the smell of that wood-fire oven reminds you of some of the happiest times of your life."

The opening comes six months to the day that fire destroyed P.ZZA, an artisan wood-fire pizza restaurant in downtown Southern Pines.

Located at 290 W. Pennsylvania Ave. in thebuilding formerly occupied by Rue 32 restaurant and The Rose Cottage.

The restaurant features wood-fired pizza first featured at P.ZZA, as well as a variety ofNeapolitan entrees as part of an expanded menu, Herman said.

The restaurant will serve lunch and dinner Monday through Saturday and brunch and dinner on Sunday.

During lunch today, several customers congratulated Herman for re-opening the restaurant after a June 16 fire destroyed P.ZZA.

Customers Gala Bunch and Jackie McDonald said they are definitely happy to have ETALIA open.

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Construction work proceeds at the Browns Socialhouse location on Queens Avenue Thursday. The restaurant/pub, which was to open last October, then in December, has been set back by construction delays due to weather, having an exterior sign damaged during work, an outdoor heater stolen and two diesel-fuelled heaters overturned.

Brandonites looking to grab a pint at Browns Socialhouse will have to wait until the spring.

Due to construction delays, the opening date of the new restaurant/pub is now slated for the end of March.

"Weve lost a few weeks just with some construction and the weather didnt help when it got really cold there for a while," said Darcy Paton, general manager of Browns Socialhouse Brandon.

Behind the scenes, the local management team has been busy training and bringing on new employees.

"Right now were in the process of getting all the aspects of the business completed," Paton said. "Its looking really good inside."

The Brandon location at 1847 Queens Ave., where the former A&W restaurant was located, is a flurry of activity these days.

"Theres probably about 35 people working in here right now," Paton said on Thursday. Crews were working on the kitchen, the exterior glasswork, flooring, handrails, etc.

The construction site had some issues at the start of the year, including the theft of a rented outdoor construction heater valued at $7,000. Also, damage was caused after suspects entered the fenced site and overturned two large diesel-fuelled heaters.

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POLSON A new $11.4 million Red Lion hotel is under construction in Polson, and will have an attached conference center and a MacKenzie River Pizza Co. grill and pub.

The development was financed with help from new market tax credits provided by the Montana Community Development Corp., headquartered in Missoula.

This project will create 42 new full-time jobs in Polson, said Melanie Calahan, director of marketing for the MTCDC. In addition to jobs, the conference space and rooms give Polson more resources for attracting regional events, which will bring more economic activity into the community.

The three-story, 80-room hotel is the fourth such project that the nonprofit organization has helped finance in western Montana, along with the Mission Valley Aquatics Center, which is just down the street from the new Red Lion, and both the Poverello Center and the Garlington, Lohn & Robinson office building in Missoula.

The total amount of new market tax credits provided for those four projects is $37.2 million, which is a sizable portion of the $185 million that the community development corporation has provided for projects in Montana since 2009.

All of these projects make an impact on low-income people and/or places, whether thats providing jobs or emergency homeless shelter, Calahan said. The NMTC program also redirects mainstream financial support to Montana (and Idaho) that wouldnt have made it here otherwise, and it leads to significant change that wouldnt have happened otherwise.

Dave Glaser, president of the MTCDC, said the developers of the new hotel/restaurant in Polson approached him about a year ago.

New market tax credits provide a subsidy to projects that are in low-income areas to provide jobs and economic vitality, he said. Sitting down with the developers, we learned that Polson in particular is trying to build up their year-round tourist visitation. A stand-alone hotel by itself isnt enough to make that attractive, and by putting in a restaurant and conference center it achieves those goals.

Polson now has received more new markets tax credit from MTCDC than any other small town in Montana and Idaho.

Rick Orizotti, who is developing the hotel along with Herb Leuprecht, said that the new hotel is expected to be completed in June.

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Photo by Eddie Maloney. [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia CommonsThe Proud Bird restaurant, the once-endangered aviation-themed eatery east of Los Angeles International Airport, secured a new 20-year lease with the airport Thursday that calls for $5 million in building improvements that will require two years of construction at the site.

The city Airport Commission approved the lease for the restaurant. The eatery has a collection of historic aircraft outside, and hundreds of aerospace photos inside the building at 11022 Aviation Blvd.

Under the terms of the lease, restaurant owner Runway Two-Five Corp. is required to make at least $5 million in building improvements, including replacing the roof and bringing the structure up to code. The owners will also add displays on the Tuskegee Airmen and other historical exhibits.

According to Los Angeles World Airports, the owners plan to invest nearly $5.9 million in the property, including the roof replacement, with the work being done during the first two years of the lease which is effective Feb. 1. The restaurant is expected to be closed during the construction, according to LAWA.

During that first two years, the company will pay $10,000 a month in rent, with the cost rising to $20,145 per month in year three, plus a $5,000 monthly building fee beginning in the fourth year.

Restaurant owner John Tallichet said in 2013 the restaurant was in danger of closing because he was unable to reach terms on a long-term lease with LAWA. He said initial proposals called for the rent to be increased from $200,000 a year to $500,000.

The company was given a temporary lease extension in December 2013, but that extension was set to expire at the end of January.

The original lease for the property was given to Runway Two-Five Corp. in 1965.

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