Golden Corral eyes Spring Hill site for new store
BROOKSVILLE –
If restaurant patrons wanted to enjoy the buffets at Golden Corral, they had to travel to Brooksville.
But people on the westside may also soon be able to pull up a seat and help themselves to all they can eat.
Golden Corral has submitted construction plans for review by Hernando County and is in the preliminary stages of that process. The proposed site is at the corner of U.S. 19 and Plyna Street, north of the Lowe’s Home Improvement store.
The county’s Code Compliance Review committee will meet next week to discuss the Golden Corral application.
Coastal Engineering Associates President Cliff Manuel, whose firm is working on the requisite approvals and the site civil engineering plans, stressed things are very much in the early stages and much will depend on how the CCR meeting comes out.
Given the brisk patronage of the downtown restaurant, Manuel believes a Golden Corral in Spring Hill would work.
“The Golden Corral in Brooksville is always full,” he said. “I think if they’re able to get it open (in Spring Hill) it will be a big plus for the area.”
The all-you-can-eat buffet eatery, headquartered in Raleigh, N.C., used to have a location in Spring Hill. In the 1990s, it was in the building now occupied by IHOP.
Hernando County is home to almost all major chains, except one: Olive Garden. And a check with the building department this week shows nothing has been submitted.
Through the years, there have been various rumors of possible sites for the Italian food chain, including a site near the State Road 50-Suncoast Parkway interchange and on an outparcel at Coastal Landing Shopping Center at SR 50 and Mariner Boulevard.
But the chain never submitted formal paperwork on either site.
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