Restaurants

The fast-casual restaurant chain recently paid $1.5 million for a 1.3-acre parcel at the massive mixed-use development, where it will join Sheetz, Virginia Credit Union and others.

Jordan and Shelby Castaneda pleaded guilty to torching the restaurant, while its owner, Tiara Black, was found not guilty of hiring the siblings to set the blaze.

“I was rich in social capitalism but I wasn’t rich in traditional capitalism terms. By trading that title of owner to people who could give the business a stronger foundation, it would get me to actually earn a living by doing the job,” said founder Zach Archibald.

The new restaurant, called Grace, is from Jessica Wilson, whose pop-up Gather For Grace used to set up at the former Broken Tulip in Carytown and now-closed Manchester food hall Hatch Local.

“The restaurant will continue to operate as it always has, with no significant changes to its business or daily operations,” said Perly’s new landlord, Ramy Abraham, who also bought a stake of the restaurant itself.

Steve Rogge, Kevin McGrath and Bill Violante are preparing to open Outpost Pizza Co. in the former Noodles & Company in Westchester Commons.

The sports bar’s space was most recently home to Burger Bach, which closed last year after eight years in Midlothian. 

Sassy’s will be a spinoff of The Sassy Biscuit in Billings, Montana. The Hull Street storefront has been vacant for five years following the legal troubles of Butterbean owner Michael Hild.

“We always talked about wanting to open in Columbia, because it’s the Gamecocks,” co-owner Luke Phillips said. “It goes perfectly with what we’re doing.”

Brazen’s name is a nod to both the restaurant’s braised options that are cooked slowly, and the “brazen” idea to start a new restaurant in an industry that can be over-saturated.