Archive for the ‘Percival Road’ tag
Rapide Wash / Da Basement Auto Detail, 300 Percival Road: Spring 2025 no comments
I noticed the other day that the carwash at the corner of Percival & Brackenridge is gone, and all the bays on the building are now enclosed in rollup doors. There doesn't seem to be any name on the place now, but perhaps a new auto-related operation is coming.
Chubby's Burgers, 106 Percival Road Suite 200: 24 April 2025 no comments
We've mentioned this closing several times in Have Your Say, but Blythewood based Chubby's Burgers has closd their Jackson Square location. This storefront is a mention on Good Luck With That, having hosted a number of different restaurants in the relatively short time the plaza has existed.
I always expected I would check out Chubby's sooner or later, but if it's a matter of driving out to Blythewood, that may not now happen.
The Free Times has the story.
Panera Bread, 106 Percival Road: 29 May 2025 no comments
Well. This was a long time coming, but pretty much inevitable. This Panera Bread location had been epically mismanaged for a number of years, as a glance at the Google reviews will show. I used to come here pretty frequently as it is fairly close to my house and they had a patio that was pleasant in temperate weather. However over the years things just got worse and worse with tables never being wiped down, the dish return stations going unbussed, the bathrooms unscrubbed and the counter almost completely unmanned. If you did manage to place an order, something inevitably would be wrong with it, and if you ordered coffee, the urn would invariably be cold. Add in being panhandled at first outside and later inside, and it was just not a good experience.
Apparently the space is being prepped for a Metro Diner, a chain with which I am unfamiliar, but which appears to be sort of a down-home breakfast & comfort food place.
In the meantime, I have found the Panera on Killian Road to be pretty well run, if harder to get to.
(Hat tip to commenter Larry)
Vampire Penguin, 106 Percival Road: 17 July 2022 4 comments
Vampire Penguin on Percival by Panera is gone. My niece went there several times and liked it. I never went by myself, thinking it was just shaved ice, which I am not that keen on, but judging by the pictures on their Facebook, I may have missed out on some other frozen goodies.
This site still commemorates the opening of this store, while this Free Times article explains the closing. In short, it appears that the area was not what the owners had hoped and the sketchiness kept family business down. I have never had any actual trouble in the area, but have been panhandled several times at that Panera and have kind of stopped gong there myself.
(Hat tip to commenter Larry)
Abbott's Auto Care Center, 1201 / 1229 Percival Road: 2019 1 comment
I never visited Abbott's, though one shop did suggest once that I take a transmission problem there. Luckily in the event, the problem resolved itself somehow and I didn't have to spend any money on it.
I believe the same family was connected with the Texaco down the road and that, going by their website, they continue to run the self storage units you can see in some of the pictures.
Darrell's Place, 1727 Percival Road: 2018 3 comments
To me this building looks like a former convenience store. The LoopNet listing (which shows a nice shot with the Darrell's branding in place) says it was built in 1971 which seems about right.
I know nothing about Darrell's Place other than a google search turns up a State article detailing a three person stabbing at the place, while mentioning in passing an earlier shooting.
I will say the Yelp photos are unexpected. (If you go left or right from that link, you may hit something NSFW).
The current branding is for WFP which I can find out nothing about, though it also appears to be defunct.
Main Event Sports Bar, 2401 Percival Road: Spring 2019 no comments
After this place tried and failed to open as Nuvo Rest.Bar, it opened as Main Event Sports Bar.
Driving by several times recently during the hours you would expect a sports bar to be open, I have come to the conclusion this place is now gone as well.
Matress Firm 106 Percival Road Suite 100: October 2018 no comments
That was pretty quick work. The pictures of the store in operation were taken on 9 October 2018, and by 16 October, the signage is down and the store is empty save for a few mattresses stacked against the front wall -- No closing sale, no bargains, just gone.
This is the second vacancy in the still fairly new Jackson Square (which replaced, most recently, Liquids Gentlemen's Club). Earlier in the year, the adjacent Tijuana Flats closed, and has yet to be replaced.
UPDATE 15 November 2021 -- Now a Club Champion gym:
UPDATE 13 December 2021 -- Here's the other side of the Club Champion:
Nuvo Rest.Bar, 2401 Percival Road: Spring 2018 (if it ever opened) no comments
When I did the closing for Latino's Bar & Grill in this location, it appeared they were setting up to open as an urban club Nuvo Rest.Bar. However, I don't think that ever actually happened. I could be wrong, of course, but I drive this stretch of Percival at least several times a month, and I don't recall ever seeing the building lit up under that name.
At any rate, they are now definitely open as Main Event Sports Bar.
UPDATE 28 March 2019: Add map icon.
Tijuana Flats, 106 Percival Road Suite 200: 4 March 2018 no comments
My sister mentioned that she had heard this place was closing, so I was able to get some interior shots in advance of that last week. I wish I had gotten the hot sauce bar, which was an impressive array of pumps.
Initially, I wasn't quite sure what to make of Tijuana Flats (and kept thinking it was Tortilla Flats for some reason..). It wasn't like a Moe's or Qdoba building hand-held burritos, and it wasn't really a sit-down Mexican restaurant, but somewhere in between the two. I finally figured it out though, and liked the place pretty well. In the summer, the front sidewalk was generally in the shade by the time I would get there, and it was nice to eat outside. In the winter, I liked to go the the back of the store and sit in the sunshine coming through the back windows. My only real criticisms are that I thought they needed a drink stand so you didn't have to go begging for refills (which they were happy to provide, but it's a quirk of mine) and I thought they should go with the sit-down Mexican restaurant concept of free salsa with the chips.
I'm pretty sure this is the first closing for the fairly new Jackson Square strip mall, though of course the whole former strip mall on the site was closed and razed years ago. The Tijuana Flats Lexington location remains open.
(Hat tip to my sister)
UPDATE 13 December 2021 -- Now a Vampire Penguin:
Also adding map icon.