![]() We are pretty scrappy, so we’ll be sure to build something fun after all this.” “We are still working on our strategy of opening more locations in the region, even though little progress has been made with the past year knocking restaurants down several pegs. “After a lot of internal debating we have decided not to reopen the Monarch Way location,” he wrote in response to our inquiries. But after months with the second Handsome location in limbo, co-owner David Hausmann says they’ve decided to let the ODU location go dark permanently. In the meantime, they’ve also expanded with a new delivery and takeout business during the pandemic, Regular Ass Sandwiches, across the street from Handsome - and remodeled nearby Toast to include a wine store. Handsome Biscuit, 4200 Monarch Way, Norfolk: At the very beginnings of the pandemic, Handsome Biscuit’s owners routed all of their take-out and delivery orders through their original Norfolk Handsome Biscuit location at 2511 Colonial Ave., letting the ODU location go fallow. This pandemic has been hard on our restaurants and we are asking you to continue to support our remaining restaurants.” We are doing everything we can to relocate all our employees from this location to our other restaurants. Witchduck Road will close for good on December 31, 2020. “It is with a heavy heart that we are closing one of our restaurants permanently,” read a message on the Pollard’s Facebook account. 29 that they would be forced to close one of its locations on New Year’s Eve. Witchduck Road, Virginia Beach: 50-year-old fried chicken chain Pollard’s announced Dec. The shoe store chain had gone through two bankruptcies in the last decade and looks as if it has shrunk considerably based on locations listed on its website. The Walking Company in Norfolk (MacArthur Center mall): The footwear store closed its downtown Norfolk location in the last quarter of the year and its store inside the Patrick Henry Mall in Newport News at some point, too. In Hampton Roads, you can still find it at the Lynnhaven mall and both the Norfolk and Williamsburg premium outlets. ![]() As of early December, it still had more than 500 stores. It’s location inside the MacArthur Center mall is among those to close. The brand has two other remaining Hampton Roads locations that aren’t closing, one in the Lynnhaven mall in Virginia Beach and another at the Patrick Henry mall in Newport News as well as factory outlet stores in Norfolk and Williamsburg.įrancesca’s in Norfolk (MacArthur Center mall): The women’s boutique with hundreds of mall locations filed for bankruptcy protection in December with plans to sell off the company. It wasn’t immediately clear when it would close for good, though. On top of that, there were 35% fewer new business licenses sought since March.Įxpress was holding a store closing sale in December 2020 at its MacArthur Center mall location in downtown Norfolk but it wasn’t clear when it would close for good.Įxpress in Norfolk (MacArthur Center mall): The men’s and women’s fashion brand sold in hundreds of malls across the country, had been holding a store closing sale at its MacArthur Center mall location in downtown Norfolk in December. 4, 2020) and more will likely surface in the coming months as businesses get annual renewal notices in the mail. ![]() In Norfolk, for one, the city recorded 1,464 business closures since March 1 compared with 1,262 during the same period (March 1, 2019, to Jan. Despite the potentially ruinous economic effects of being ordered to shut operations for months at a time, very few of those bankruptcies locally in Hampton Roads have involved retailers or restaurant owners.īut as the coronavirus pandemic drags on, more and more cracks begin to show - and the closures have begun to add up. There were 259 business-related bankruptcies filed between March and September in the Eastern District of Virginia, which includes Norfolk and Newport News courts, compared with 191 during the same period a year prior. Many of the closures that did occur locally have been among chain stores and restaurants, as businesses trimmed their locations for profitability. Early figures from the Alcoholic Beverage Commission, tallied in June, show that the number of active alcohol licenses for restaurants in Hampton remained relatively steady compared with the previous year - down by about 2%. Paycheck Protection Program loans and rent deferments certainly also played a part in keeping some local businesses open during the pandemic’s first months. Hampton Roads has not seen the calamitous wave of local restaurant and retail closures found in much of the country, in part because the region was buoyed by both federal military dollars and much stronger summer tourism than in other cities. E-Pilot Evening Edition Home Page Close Menu
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