775-811 Queen Street Southington, CT

[giantsfan2016]

775-811 Queen Street is a new shopping center under construction on Queen Street (State Route 10) in Southington, CT. It's owned by local developer John Senese.

Aldi opened October 5, 2017.

Go Urgent Care is supposed to open November 2017.

Chick Fil A is supposed to open in January 2018.

Chipotle is supposed to open first quarter 2018.

Other businesses that are supposed to be opening in 2018 include: Mission BBQ Restaurant, AAA Travel, and Verizon Wireless Zone. I think some of these may share space with Chipotle. There are also 2 houses next to Go Urgent Care owned by the developer that are supposed to be torn down at some point.

Photo 1 Shows the Pylon Sign and the Chick Fil A still under construction.

Photo 2 shows Aldi.

Photo 3 shows the frame of Chipotle.

Photo 4 shows go Urgent Care. This buildinng was built in 1985 and was Papa Ginos then Brugger's Bagels, then Randy's Wooster Street Pizza, and finally 7-Eleven.

As for the history of this property there was a gas station on part of this property that was demolished long before my family moved to Southington in 2003. There was a long abandoned industrial building on part of this property. There was also a Chinese Restaurant on this property that closed in 2011. They wouldn't have been able to pass their health inspection once the power was restored after a blizzard in October 2011 knocked out power for 4 or 5 days.

[JJBers]

That makes the closest Chipotle to me in the state again!

[giantsfan2016]

Go Urgent Care just opened. They only took half of the former 7-Eleven building. The right side. According to the article about the opening of Go Urgent Care the other half of the building will become an office of Admire Dental.

FROM MYRECORDJOURNAL.COM

GoHealth urgent care facility opens on Queen Street in Southington

By Jesse Buchanan, Record-Journal staff

SOUTHINGTON â€" An urgent care facility opened on Queen Street Monday, the seventh GoHealth location for Hartford Health Care and one of a host of new businesses in the area.

The urgent care opened in half of a former 7-Eleven at 775 Queen St. John Senese, a local developer who transformed that section of Queen Street in the past few months, said he’s pleased with the progress constructing stores and restaurants.

Last month, an Aldi supermarket opened just north of the urgent health building. A Chik-fil-A is scheduled to open in January and a Chipotle Mexican Grill and Mission Barbecue in the spring. Senese is also seeking approval for an AAA building south of the urgent care.

On Monday, work crews prepared to put up a sign for the urgent care. Work is still underway on the other half of the building which will house an Admire Dental.

Kirsten Jones, market president with Hartford Health Care, said GoHealth offers testing, flu shots, care for lacerations and x-rays.

The urgent care has four rooms and can see 40-50 patients per day. There is always a doctor, physician’s assistant or nurse practitioner on duty, Jones said, as well as an x-ray technician. The x-ray machine is mobile and can be wheeled to the room for the patient’s convenience.

Visitors can register a time online and sign in at a pad in the waiting room. The layout and design of the urgent care has won awards, Jones said.

“When you go into any of the GoHealth centers, they have all the same look and feel,” she said.

The center is open from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. weekdays and 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on weekends.

Hartford Healthcare officials said services would begin moving into a medical building this month south of the GoHealth.

Hartford Healthcare officials said the new medical office building wouldn’t offer urgent care and wouldn’t be in competition with the services offered at the Bradley campus. Some residents concerned about the reduction of services at Bradley worried the new center would draw patients away from the hospital, which has already experienced reduced patient volume.

GoHealth joins several nearby urgent health centers including a 203 Urgent Care which opened last summer at 826 Queen St. and Velocity Urgent Care at 365 Queen St.

Health care experts say doctors find urgent care centers profitable, insurance companies prefer them to hospital visits, patients enjoy the easy scheduling and savings and health care networks like the ability to refer patients within their group. Since the state doesn’t license urgent care facilities, separately tracking their growth is difficult but urgent care groups have reported expansion in recent years.

[giantsfan2016]

Chick Fil A opens this Thursday January 11th. Work is progressing on the building that will house Chipotle and another business. Also they did bulldoze those houses before the nasty winter weather started.

[giantsfan2016]

The Town of Southington approved the construction of AAA Travel.

[giantsfan2016]

The Weather has caused construction delays for the construction of the Chipotle and Mission BBQ Restaurants.

FROM MYRECORDJOURNAL.COM
Mission BBQ, Chipotle expected to open at Queen Street plaza in Southington this summer
April 02, 2018 05:41PM
By Bailey Wright, Record-Journal staff

SOUTHINGTON â€" Construction continues on a Mission BBQ, Chipotle, and a Verizon store expected to open at a Queen Street plaza this summer.

The plaza is owned by local developer John Senese, who also recently developed a Go Urgent Care medical facility, Chick-fil-A and Aldi adjacent to the plaza along Queen Street.

The two latest restaurants are expected to open within the next three months, Senese said. He said construction of the building has been held up by weather, but interior work has started and exterior fixtures are nearing completion. The original completion date was this spring.

Mission BBQ has over 60 locations nationwide, but this would be the first in Connecticut. The first restaurant opened on Sept. 11, 2011 in Glen Burnie, Maryland by founders Bill Braus and Steve Newton. Both men were heavily impacted by the terrorist attacks 10 years earlier and wanted to do something for U.S. service members.

“They’re a smokehouse… A very popular restaurant chain, a lot of good things about them,” Senese said.

Company representatives could not be reached for comment.

According to the company's website, Mission BBQ serves beef, pork, poultry and seafood barbecue in a variety of sauces with side dishes, salads and bread. It also has a catering menu for large parties.

"We believe there is nothing more American than BBQ, and nobody more American than the brave men and women who have sworn to protect and serve our communities and our country," the owners state on the Mission BBQ website.

Senese also received approval for a 11,000-square-foot AAA building, which would be the first of its kind. He said he is waiting on permit approvals and expects the business to open in October.

Town Economic Development Director Lou Perillo said the new prototype building will have bays for full automotive services, as well as financial and licensing services.

“That’s very exciting that Queen Street is so attractive” for a prototype location, Perillo said.

bwright@record-journal.com

[giantsfan2016]

Mission BBQ opened to the public on July 2nd. They had a few private events at the end of June.

Before they even opened they got a fine from the town of Southington. The town of Southington are a bunch of Nazis when it comes to signs. They got a fine because they had a humvee type vehicle (that eventually became their smoker) parked in front of their building that had a banner on it that said "Coming Soon Mission BBQ. Now Hiring." Now that the restaurant is open the humvee vehicle is now parked in back of their building. It's their smoker.  --------------------- This has led to a discussion of a possible new town ordinance to prohibit vehicles with the names of businesses on it from parking near the street where their businesses are located along the three main commercial strips in Southington - State Route 10 aka Queen Street, State Route 229 aka West Street, and State Route 322 aka Meriden Waterbury Turnpike. They call these vehicles "mobile" billboards. They want the vehicles parked in the back of the buildings where they are out of sight.

Like I said the town is like Nazis when it comes to signs. Until 2016 digital signs at gas stations were prohibited. When the new Rite Aid (now closed) was built and opened in 2009 they weren't allowed to show what products were on sale on their digital sign. They sign was only allowed to show the time and temperature. In 2003 or 2004 the owner of the former Pratt and Whitney factory on Aircraft Road got a fine for putting a For Lease Banner on a water tower on his property. The Water tower can be seen from Queen Street. I don't know if they got fines, but when Shaw's was in town they got busted for putting a  sign at the entrance to the plaza where they were located that said "Shaw's Now Hiring." ShopRite is in the Shaw's spot now and I know they got busted for putting a sign at the entrance to the plaza announcing a "seafood sale." A Chevy Dealership once occupied the property where Rite Aid was until July 2018. In the early 80s the owner was denied permission from the town to put a sign on the roof of his building. His building had visibility from the I-84 bridge that went by the edge of his property.

Southington has a very low crime rate, so I think that's why they worry about stupid crap like that about the signs. If you ask me the town has bigger fish to fry than whether to worry about the catering van from the pizza house has being parked in a parking lot on Queen Street where the restaurant is located.

[giantsfan2016]

Chipotle just opened last week. AAA is still under construction. The empty space in-between Misson and Chipotle is supposed to become a relocated Wireless Zone currently in a co-owned strip center across the street.

[giantsfan2016]

AAA opened in December 2018. Wireless Zone is now open in its new location in-between Chipotle and Mission BBQ.

[JimSawhill]

Been to Mission BBQ? Great food...

[giantsfan2016]

Been to Mission BBQ? Great food...

I have not. I'm going to King of Prussia, PA in about 5 weeks. Maybe I'll go to the one there.