Big big news from the Town Council email inbox—next summer, Purple Bowl will be moving out of its spot at 306 West Franklin, where it’s been since it opened in 2017, and moving down the street. This clears the way for the redevelopment of the 306 West Franklin Site for Longfellow Real Estate Partners’ proposed […]
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What’s going on with the proposed wet lab, Purple Bowl, and other affected businesses?
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 […]
Posted inChapel Hill, Downtown, Economic development
♫ 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 […]
Posted inChapel Hill, Chapel Hill Town Council, Economic development, Small business
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 […]