Bene! Gourmet Pizza closes shop, pulls out of downtown.Byline: Joe Mosley Mos·ley , Sir Oswald Ernald 1896-1980. British politician and the founder and leader of the British fascist party. The Register-Guard The owners of Bene! Gourmet Pizza have lost patience with downtown Eugene, closing their original outlet on West Broadway on Friday night even as the neighborhood may be on the verge On the Verge (or The Geography of Yearning) is a play written by Eric Overmyer. It makes extensive use of esoteric language and pop culture references from the late nineteenth century to 1955. of a turnaround Turnaround A situation where a company that has had poor performance for an extended period of time experiences a positive reversal. Notes: A speculator may profit from a turnaround if he or she accurately anticipates the improvement of a poorly performing company. . Kevin and Erika Cohen cohen or kohen (Hebrew: “priest”) Jewish priest descended from Zadok (a descendant of Aaron), priest at the First Temple of Jerusalem. The biblical priesthood was hereditary and male. , who founded the company in Eugene six years ago, said in a statement that business has continued to decline at the 225 W. Broadway location in the past year as more restaurants have opened nearby and other businesses have left the downtown core
The Downtown Core is a 266-hectare urban planning area in the south of the city-state of Singapore. . Bene! will focus its local efforts on remaining locations at Oakway Center off Coburg Road and at 2566 Willamette St. in south Eugene, the Cohens said. The company also has opened two locations in Denver in the past year. The Cohens have moved to Denver and could not be reached for comment on Friday's closure of their downtown restaurant. However, Kevin Cohen said in the statement that he hopes to expand the Oakway Center location and may open a north Eugene outlet if he finds a suitable site. Meanwhile, the company will move its catering operations from the downtown location to its south Eugene outlet. The Broadway restaurant's five employees all will be offered transfers to Bene! Gourmet Pizza's two other Eugene locations, Cohen said. Cohen told The Register-Guard in February 2005 that his company was prepared to build a total of three new outlets in Denver by mid- mid- pref. Middle: midbrain. 2006 and will be looking at other possibilities. Friday's announcement came as plans appear to be in the works for the International Society for Technology in Education to occupy the former Symantec building on West Broadway, and for software company Lunar LUNAR. That which belongs to the moon; relating to the moon as a lunar month. See Month. Logic to consolidate its operations in the nearby Aster Building. There also has been much talk in recent months about a potentially massive retail and housing renovation in downtown Eugene, spearheaded by local developers Tom Connor and Don Woolley. So far, however, Connor and Woolley have not been able to secure all of the property they say they want for the project. The Bene! downtown restaurant was in leased space in the Broadway Place retail and housing complex. |
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