Restaurant

Bridgeport, Conn. -- Bridgeport Landing Development, a subsidiary of The RCI Group, announced that the $50 million first phase of Steelpointe Harbor, located in Bridgeport, Connecticut, is scheduled to open later this year. Steelpointe Harbor is a two million sq. ft. super-regional waterfront project spanning 82 acres.

Washington, D.C. -- Edens announced that Mike Isabella, of Bravo TV’s “Top Chef” fame, will open his Kapnos Kouzina restaurant concept at Mosaic, Edens’ mixed-use development located in Fairfax County, Virginia. The restaurant is slated to open in early 2016.

Minneapolis – Target Corp. reportedly wants to become a place where consumers can go and everybody knows your name.

According to USA Today, Target plans to serve liquor in a store slated to open in Chicago in October 2015.

While a number of Target stores sell packaged alcohol products, this marks the first time Target would also serve liquor for customers to consume inside the store. Target has applied for permits to both sell alcohol for take-home purchase and for in-store consumption for the Chicago store.

Orlando, Fla. -- Madison Marquette announced it has been selected to provide leasing services for Parc Central mixed-use development, located in Orlando, Florida. The development is slated for a first quarter 2016 groundbreaking.

Parc Central will consist of a 29-story high-rise, mixed-use tower featuring 215 luxury residential apartments with rooftop amenities, approximately 15,000 sq. ft. of ground floor retail space and a 30,000-sq.-ft. retail floor located above the parking deck.
 

Salads and fancy pizza will soon be on the menu at a very limited number of Target locations.

Minneapolis -- Salads and fancy pizza will soon be on the menu at a very limited number of Target locations.

Starting in October, the retailer plans to test  fast-casual concepts in some 14 stores as it responds to customers looking for higher-quality food and more of a café atmosphere, USA Today reported.

Jackson, Miss. -- The fast-growing Newk’s Eatery named Robert Nygren as CFO.

Nygren comes to Newk’s with nearly two decades of financial management experience. He most recently served as VP of finance for DineEquity, the world’s largest full-service restaurant company, overseeing financial planning, analytics and strategy for Applebee’s and IHOP in conjunction with the brands’ operational and development objectives.

San Francisco -- The old-fashioned automat has been reborn as the nation’s first fully-automated, high-tech fast-food restaurant.   

Eatsa, a start-up restaurant concept, has opened its first location, in downtown San Francisco near the financial district. The format combines two of the city’s biggest interests: healthy eating and innovative technology. And don’t worry about tipping — there is almost no human interaction in the entire Eatsa experience.