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Austin Landing Announces Another Restaurant Tennant

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We are pleased to be able to welcome BJ’s Restaurant & Brewhouse to Austin Landing,” said RG President Randy Gunlock. “BJ’s is a great restaurant and provides a memorable atmosphere. Personally, my family and I’ve eaten there many times, and I think the restaurant will be a great addition to the community here at Austin Landing.”

BJ’s will have an 8,300 square foot standalone restaurant at Austin Landing. Construction is projected to begin on March 25. The restaurant will be complete and ready to open by Fall 2013. The free-standing building will be located at the entrance to Austin Landing from Austin Boulevard.

“BJ’s offers the type of unique and exciting experience we hope to make available to the community when they visit Austin Landing,” Gunlock said. “We are confident the restaurant will receive a warm reception from the growing Austin Landing community.”

mapBJ’s Restaurants owns and operates 130 casual dining restaurants throughout the United States, including three in Ohio. BJ’s menu is known for its award-winning, signature deep-dish pizza, as well as generously portioned salads, appetizers, sandwiches, soups, pastas, entrees and desserts.

Last year, Austin Landing announced the commitments of Rue Dumaine, Alligator Annie’s and The Dublin Pub—the first restaurants to be announced at the development. Regal Cinemas also has committed to a 14-screen Regal RPX cinema, the first of its kind in Ohio, at Austin Landing.

Austin Landing Lands 3 Independent Restaurants

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Tom Sand and Chef Anne Kearney

Successful Washington Township restaurant Rue Dumaine will be moving  to the new Austin Landing, where it will share a kitchen with a second more casual concept , Alligator Annie’s,  in a 10,600 square-foot building.  Thomas Sand Jr. and Chef Anne Kearney, founder and chef/co-founder of Rue Dumaine, hope to use their location at Austin Landing as a way build on their passion for food and a good experience.

“When you walk out of our restaurants at Austin Landing, I want you to say you had an experience,” Sand said. “We try to create a place where you can go and be treated the way you want to be treated, experience good food and good service, refresh and rejuvenate yourself and let the worries of the day disappear.”

Rue Dumaine will continue serving the American bistro fare inspired by French cuisine for which it has become known, while

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Alligator Annie’s will take the form of a casual Southern-style social club and will offer lunch and dinner service 7 days a week.

Since their departure from New Orleans, Sand and Kearney said they have enjoyed becoming part of the Dayton community and sharing a bit of themselves with anyone looking for a good meal. They said they look at the choice to open at Austin Landing as a decision to put down roots in a community setting in which everyone is there to benefit each other.

“We are making a commitment to this village, city, state and region we call home.” Sand said. “This venue will allow us to showcase the partnerships we have formed with our nearly 100 vendors, local farmers and artisans and provide our present and future clientele with more food options. We look forward to exploring all the possibilities.”

And in a long talked about expansion, The Dublin Pub will be opening a 6000 square foot second location.  “Since the day we opened up, we’ve always had a focus on expansion and growth,” Tieber said. “We know that a lot of restaurants make mistakes with expansions, but we’re doing this right. We knew with Austin Landing coming, it would be a perfect fit for a pub location.”

Tieber said The Dublin Pub would be partnering with other local restaurateurs Dan Apolito and Mike Fullenkamp of Archer’s Tavern with the intention to create their flagship Irish Pub with hopes of a multi-pub chain expansion. “Dan and Mike have over 40 years of corporate restaurant experience between them.  We knew combining our talents and over 60 years of experience would make the transition and growth to a second location successful,” Tieber said.

He said the newest location of The Dublin Pub would have the same beloved recipes and provide the same atmosphere and live music as the original Downtown Dayton location, making it a great fit for the Austin Landing development.  “We’re blessed with being a restaurant that caterers to a lot of different crowds,” Tieber said. “We are one of the few restaurant concepts that can transition well from being a perfect location for lunch for the business crowd and dinners during the week to becoming more of a bar atmosphere on the weekend.”

Randy Gunlock, president of RG Properties, the commercial real estate firm developing Austin Landing, said it is fitting that the first restaurants to open at Austin Landing will be independents.  “Rue Dumaine and The Dublin Pub have garnered excellent reputations throughout the community, and Alligator Annie’s is poised to follow suit, making all three restaurants a perfect fit with Austin Landing,” Gunlock said. “We all want a unique experience when we go out, and Austin Landing will be the place where people will come to enjoy that experience. “

Work is set to begin this year on construction of the restaurants, and RG is looking toward a spring of 2013 opening date for each.  Gunlock said RG Properties is active in conversations with a number of other restaurants, working to bring the best mix to the Austin Landing development. He said the company is targeting small and large chains as well as independents and hopes to settle on between four and five full-service restaurants and four and five fast-casual restaurants.