Renuka Soll, who is running for Town Council recently emailed people who had written to Town Council in support of Purple Bowl. In her email, she encouraged Purple Bowl supporters to support her and the other candidates on Adam Searing’s slate (Searing’s campaign treasurer works at Purple Bowl.) Problematically, the email contained inaccurate information (we […]
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♫ I only want to see you eating in the Purple Bowl ♫
♫ Purple Bowl, Purple Bowl ♫ When we last visited the Purple Bowl predicament, the beloved acai restaurant on Franklin Street was spearheading an email campaign to Chapel Hill Town Council to save themselves from a potential redevelopment. Here are some updates: We still believe this is a problem that Chapel Hill needs to solve […]
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Saving Purple Bowl (and other local businesses)
It’s no secret that the Town of Chapel Hill wants more commercial development here, and there are good reasons for that: In recent years, Chapel Hill Town Council has pursued a variety of low-hanging fruit strategies to add to our commercial base. For the most part, these strategies have been modest and the results haven’t […]
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Save Purple Bowl: We’re speaking out for cool, local downtown retail
Axios recently covered the new office, lab, and retail space possibly coming to Franklin Street where the Blue Dogwood Market, Chimney, and Purple Bowl currently are. The article quotes the owner of Purple Bowl, our favorite acai bowl restaurant, as saying “he believes the project will likely mean the demise of his popular acai bowl […]
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Mr. Sun Sun, Mr. Purple Sun – please shine down on me
We are among the biggest fans of Purple Bowl. One of the blog blogging households is one of their biggest customers, and is grateful for their variety of delicious lunches and smoothies that were served to hospital employees during the pandemic. To say we love Purple Bowl would be an understatement — we spend a […]