A Buddy’s bar-b-q restaurant will join Panera Bread at a new commercial complex going up at the former Firestone auto service center outside Northgate Mall in Hixson, the developer says.
“There will be two buildings side by side,” said Chattanooga developer Bassam Issa. “Panera is in one. [Buddy’s] is in the other.”
Work on the new center has “pretty much started” at the site at the highly visible intersection of Hixson Pike and Highway 153, he said.
Issa said he’s talking to interested parties to fill two other spaces in the center as well as a nearby 8,000-square-foot pad.
“We’re working with others,” Issa said.