While other grocery stores are planning to build town centers with food halls, fitness centers and more in their parking lots, Kroger at Mockingbird Lane is doing the opposite.
It’s parking lot was once home to Burger Street, a drive-up eatery that closed in February after 26 years in business at that location. A representative from the fast-food chain said that Kroger owns the parking lot and raised the rent to a rate the business could not afford.
Soon after, the building was bulldozed. The empty space will become an expanded parking lot, a Kroger spokeswoman, April Martin, told the Dallas Morning News.
An updated parking lot is the first in a series of renovations that the Kroger at 5665 E. Mockingbird Lane will undergo this year, the Morning News reported.
Although neighbors will no longer be able to wisely fill their stomachs before doing their grocery shopping, a Burger Street spokesman said at the time of its closing that the owners hope to reopen at a location nearby.
In the meantime, there are 14 Burger Street locations that remain open in North Texas.
