{"id":7267,"date":"2017-11-16T22:00:56","date_gmt":"2017-11-17T05:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/?p=7267"},"modified":"2020-07-03T04:17:25","modified_gmt":"2020-07-03T04:17:25","slug":"place-someday-going-to-be-a-restaurant-finally-going-to-be-a-restaurant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/?p=7267","title":{"rendered":"Place \u201cSomeday Going to Be a Restaurant,\u201d Finally Going to Be a Restaurant"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"275\" height=\"183\" src=\"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/punch-bowl.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7856\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The LONG awaited opening of <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/posts\/punch-bowl-me-im-dreaming-hip-pub-and-eatery-to-renovate-tower\/\" target=\"_blank\">Punch Bowl Social<\/a> is finally here. The restaurant is set to open this Friday (11\/18) with much anticipated fanfare. \u201cWe are really hoping to get in this opening weekend,\u201d said local resident Adam Owens. \u201cWhen it was first announced, I couldn\u2019t believe it. A restaurant was the best idea for the tower, but everyone knew it was going to be challenging financially to figure out a way to do it.\u201d Resident Amanda Lewis recalls how often she mentions to her kids that the tower was going through positive changes. \u201cEvery time we drove by, I would say, \u2018what is that going to be someday kids?\u2019 And they would say, \u2018a restaurant.\u2019 And I can\u2019t believe they are finally completing the project.\u201d Admittingly, the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/posts\/punch-bowl-social-to-acquire-control-tower-land-and-begin-long-construction-project\/\" target=\"_blank\">project<\/a> didn\u2019t go as smoothly as expected. \u201cWe should have known better,\u201d said Project Manager Matt Marrion. \u201cIt was an abandon control tower. I doubt in the history of architecture and engineering, there is another project of this kind. It would have been easier to tear the thing down and start from scratch.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>According to the project leaders, the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/posts\/forest-city-looking-for-as-is-lessees-for-stapleton-control-tower\/\" target=\"_blank\">project<\/a> ultimately took fifty percent more time than expected. However, The Stapletonions research shows an initial planned opening of spring 2016, showing the project took over twice as long as expected. \u201cNot sure who gave the initial estimates,\u201d said Marrion. \u201cBut, I doubt it was me. Unless I had never been in there. I took a bunch of videos and pictures so people could see what this hell hole was like before we got in here. It\u2019s amazing we got it done as quickly as we did.\u201d The Stapletonion projected the project would take at least five years. But, here we are. This <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/posts\/mcdonalds-purchases-stapleton-control-tower\/\" target=\"_blank\">giant question mark<\/a> in the middle of the neighborhood is now going to be a city-wide attraction. And to think, there was once talk of making it a <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/posts\/control-tower-community-arts-center-to-house-original-forrest-city-plans\/\" target=\"_blank\">community arts center<\/a>. Thank you for rescuing us, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.punchbowlsocial.com\/location\/stapleton\" target=\"_blank\">Punch Bowl Social<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<![CDATA[]]>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7267","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-issue-155","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7267"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7857,"href":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7267\/revisions\/7857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}