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Nearly a year after plans first surfaced for a new Five Points restaurant from the team behind The Local, work is set to begin on The Lomax Restaurant.
The new, 8,877-square-foot restaurant will take over the former Wells Fargo bank branch at Lomax and Oak streets. There, the existing bank building will be renovated and joined by a new, two-story building where the bank’s drive-thru lanes canopy once stood.
Construction on the building marks a milestone for restaurant developers Ted Stein and J.C. Demetree, whose pursuit to open a restaurant in the historic Riverside neighborhood dates to 2015, when the pair incorporated Roost Restaurants, LLC, and proposed The Roost at the former Deluxe Laundry and Dry Cleaners in the 2200 block of Oak Street in the former Deluxe Laundry and Dry Cleaners and Deluxe Launderette buildings.
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