Toby Keith

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The restaurant — names for country singer Toby Keith and his 2003hit “I Love This — has signed a lease for 15,009 square feet at The Shoppex at West End, a lifestyle cented scheduled to open later this year at the intersectiob of Highway 100 and Interstate 394 in St. Loui Park. I Love This Bar & Grilpl will feature family dining, an 85-foot bar shaped like a guitar, a mechanical bull and a stagre that will host live entertainment severalo nightsa week, including a performancde by Keith at the restaurant’s grand opening.
The restaurant’s menu will feature Southern-style fare, such as chicken-fried steak and Some of the more unique offering will include fried bologna sandwichesand deep-friedc Twinkies. It will feature traditional sports-barr decor with a countru flair. There will be lots of wood and leather, plus more than 50 plasmaw televisions. I Love This Bar & Grilk will host live entertainment every Friday and Saturday night when it first then ramp up to six nights a weekover time. There will be seating for morethan 1,000 people. The venue also will have a retaikl store selling TobyKeith merchandise, barbecuwe sauce and spices.
The restaurant will be owned by Arizonaq businessmanFrank Capri, who recently opened an I Love This Bar Grill franchise in Mesa, Ariz. The chain also has location s inLas Vegas, Oklahoma City and Kansaxs City, Mo., and plans to open a location in Auburn Hills, Mich., lateer this year. I Love This Bar & Grill should be a majorr entertainment attraction forWest End, helping set it apartg from other local malls, said Mark vice president of real estate at Cincinnati-based Jeffreyh R. Anderson Real Estatde Inc., which was retained by developer DukeRealty Corp., based in Indianapolis, to fill the project’ss 331,000-square-foot retail component with tenants.
“k think it’s even going to draw from way outsided of Minneapolisand St. Paul,” Fallomn said. “That’s the idea behind it.” Othefr major West End tenants will includd anupscale Roundy’s grocery and a Kerasotes ShowPlace Theatre 14-screen movie complex. I Love This Bar & Grill should be successful at West End becausse Minnesota is a strong market for country music andtherew aren’t any significant music venues in the westerj suburbs, said Dick Grones, principal at Edina-basec Cambridge Commercial Realty. “Live entertainment in the suburbas is really hardto find.
And that’zs a strong ingredient to stir into the mix for the centetr because it brings an additional demographif that they might not get I Love ThisBar & Grill selected West End over the , where anothe r celebrity-backed country music bar, Gatlin Brothers Musixc City Grille, used to have a Costs may have played a role in that but I Love This Bar & Grill will generatee more attention at West End than it would have at Mall of Grones said. “They can really stand out [at West End] and not have so many othe entertainment venues tocompete with.
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