Campus Pizza closes its doors after 56 years

Campus Pizza and Pasta, a former Stadium Village staple, drew students and alumni to its vaunted brick-and-mortar storefront throughout its 56-year history.

But last month, the business that hosted events ranging from open-mic comedy nights to game day celebrations closed its doors for the last time.

Owners of the family-run business said one of the reasons it shut down was because it saw a decrease in foot traffic and sales for a year because of construction on the Green Line light rail.

Its the sad end of a chapter, said Jim Rosvold, co-owner and manager during the restaurants later life.

The effects of the light rail construction dug the restaurant into a financial hole that it couldnt recover from, he said.

The restaurant opened in Stadium

Village in 1959, and about three decades later, the Rosvold family bought it.

The business moved in 2009 from its original location to its final space a larger one across the street, where Rosvold said it thrived with a larger pizza oven and full bar.

But when light-rail construction picked up around the University in 2012, business slowed, and the restaurant never recovered, he said. The business unsuccessfully filed for bankruptcy last summer.

The light rail took off all the parking on Washington, and that killed a lot of that traffic, Rosvold said. We used to have a lot of people come in from the suburbs.

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