It looks like $5 footlongs are about to be a lot more prevalent on the University of Arkansas campus.
A sign recently appeared for a Subway sandwich shop in the window of the retail space at the Garland Center, located at 616 North Garland Avenue, Suite 352 and 353.
Subway representative Michelle Culpepper confirmed today that the campus location should be open by this summer.
“It’s hard to tell with construction, but we think we’ll be open in 45-60 days,” she said.
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The shop will become the sixth business to move into the Garland Center since it opened in July, 2010. The University of Arkansas Bookstore, 3 Spoons Frozen Yogurt, Walmart on Campus, Belle Boutique, and Enrich Salon are already operating in the retail space at the front of the facility which doubles as a parking deck.
Culpepper said that she is excited to be opening a Subway on the University of Arkansas campus.
“Our family has been doing Subways in the area for 20 years now, and we’ve been wanting to open a store on campus for a long time,” she said.
With over 33,749 restaurants worldwide, Subway officially surpassed McDonald’s as the largest restaurant chain in the world at the end of 2010.
If all goes as planned, the new restaurant will be open sometime in late May or early June.
Jesus Christ. It’s a friggin’ subway.
Get a hold of yourself.
yay, keep fayetteville funky
It’s a friggin’ announcement of a new store. Get a hold of yourself.
A phone call was made to Collier International reality once the parking deck was constructed in order to find out the feasibility of bringing a local diner style restaurant, possibly a bar and grill, to this location. However, the Realtor informed the interested parties that the University of Arkansas only allocated two spots for food vending and that the contracts for Subway and 3 Spoons were already signed before the parking deck was even constructed. He also mentioned that the University of Arkansas was only interested in nationally branded chains and began scouting years ago.
It’s great to see that our town and the individuals that run it, as well as the University really do believe in the “support local business” theme they try promote. It’s not hard to look at other college towns that have unfortunately slipped into the hands of capitalistic corporations and see that Fayetteville is next on the list. Waffle House on Dickson, Chipotle, Jimmy Johns, Quizno’s, Papa Johns, and now subway can all call our beloved eclectic downtown and campus area home.
One might notice that “Keep Austin Weird” is now just a slogan to remind us of the times when there weren’t 62 high rise condos in downtown, and that town still had some sort of personality.
How long will our Funky Fayetteville last..? Underwood? Legacy building? Paid parking? Renaissance tower? Unfortunately, if we allow our planning commission to continue issuing permits for “Large Scale Developments” as well as making idiotic and moronic decisions with our hard earned tax money then the answer is not long.
I challenge everyone to look for those little red signs notifying the public of hearings regarding these issues and attend the meetings and voice your concerns. Otherwise, our cheese dip festivals and a myriad of other eclectic and funky events will cease to exist.
It’s up to us to preserve this town, otherwise quit your b***ching.
Amen to every word of that! We HAVE to support our local establishments! it gives our town a real vibe that can’t be duplicated….we DONT want to lose that.
@Michael
Your snarkiness is usually well placed, but here it’s a bit indiscriminate. Subway is the largest food chain on planet earth. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/07/worlds-largest-restaurant-chain-subway_n_832511.html
Fayetteville has eighty thousand people, and it’s embedded in a metro of 400k. A subway is hardly worth a news blurb. Building but one restaurant in the largest chain of fast food restaurants in a metro that has hundreds just like it is nothing to crow about it.
And honestly, my initial post was just casual annoyance, but I think Bill has hit a much larger point. The independent and local venues are what make a great city–it’s not the chains. The independent stores are unique and creative, and they have to fight it out tooth and nail make names for themselves–they don’t have multimillion dollar marketing arms. I don’t dig Austin because of it’s restaurant chains any more than I do Jonesboro (which I don’t dig).
If anything, that’s what FF should be covering.
The same things you’re tossing out as negatives are the very things that make them appealing to the UA. No Subway isn’t some super elite hipster chic tofu shop that only plays obscure indie music, but what they are is a stable brand with a proven track record of making money and paying their bills.
Oh, ok then.
Your overall point is well made, but I disagree with the last line of your post. The Flyer doesn’t seem to be interested in editorializing their news articles, which does wonders for their credibility.
I believe they still welcome reader submissions for their Fayetteville Speaks section; if you’re burned up about the rampant spread of chain restaurants in Fayetteville then pen some prose and perhaps they shall publish it. You’ll have plenty of sympathetic readers (myself included), and you’re likely to see more reader comments here than on any of the other news blogs anyway.
We cover all kinds of things here on the Flyer.
We wrote about Walmart on Campus in January, Salty Dog in February, and then Kum & Go and the Hammontree’s Grillenium Falcon food truck in March.
Shortly after yesterday’s Subway post, we wrote about the new vintage furniture shop on South Street.
If we think something’s interesting and we can get to it, we’ll write about it.
One time, we posted a page with photos of crazy dogs.
I liked this article more when I thought the headline meant mass transit was coming to campus.
Fayetteville Flyer is a really great resource. Keep up the good work here. Dgold
As far as the Austin comments: I live here now, and I totally disagree. The town is still extremely weird and great. Downtown has been gentrified, but the town is so infused with weirdness throughout.
I haven’t been to Fayetteville in a pretty long time, so I’m hoping it still has enough funky people. I think Austin is so large and such a huge magnet for eclectic types that it can sustain its weirdness even it it migrates to other parts of town. On the other hand, I wonder if the funkiness will die out in Fayetteville because the city is much smaller (like I said, I haven’t been back in a while, so I use FF to keep track of the trends). If the funky, creative types in Fayetteville keep getting edged out, there may be nowhere for them left to go (unlike Austin, which is pretty large and allows for its weirdos to flee to different parts of town). And then, the allure that made Fayetteville awesome will fade away, and the city will become another dime a dozen city with a good economy, sure, but just a variant on the Rogers-esque sprawl.
it don’t matter who is in Austin, Bob Wills is still the king
Hooray for Subway.
Austin tries too hard.
Serially, funky or not, Subway is FRESH!
College students, faculty, and staff tend to be highly affluent, especially at state schools in the South. I’m not sure there will be much demand for modestly priced sandwiches in generous portions at a high-traffic location on campus.
Some UA staff may be affluent, but its certainly not the majority.
@OffCamber – I agree with you about the professors, but not the students… I recall much ramen being eaten in my dorm days and the cafeterias certainly do not serve gourmet foods…
I think that was a joke. At least I hope so.
My sarcasm alert went off on Offcamber’s comment too. I could be wrong, though.
I think some of you are forgetting that the location of this Subway is on campus. And it directly impacts the students who also make up a large portion of the City of Fayetteville’s population. It’s going to compete directly with the Quizno’s on the opposite side, there are not alot of places beyond the Quad Cafeteria to eat on the northside without leaving campus to go all the way to North St and Garland. Most students who live in that area don’t even own a car. We read the flyer too!