BELLEVUE, WI (WTAQ) — As the new Chick-fil-A opens Thursday in Bellevue, the village looks ahead to future development.
Andrew Vissers, director of community development for the Village of Bellevue, says when one business opens, more follow. He used the 2013 opening of Costco, near the new Chick-fil-A, as an example.
“It opens up this window of ‘Oh, Costco has such rigid locational criteria and all these things that need to be in place for them to locate there because then they know they’ll be successful,’” said Vissers. “Once that opens up that window, other businesses look at that, too.”
Vissers says the area near the new Chick-fil-A on Monroe Road has long been under utilized; but not for long.
“This is the last major interchange on the loop system in the Green Bay area that has significant anchorage for development,” said Vissers. “So we’re able to look at every interchange in the area and say ‘we like this’ or ‘we don’t like that’ and ‘we want this to be developed in this type of manner.’”
Construction for the new Chick-fil-A started in late April; it’s the second location of the franchise in the Green Bay area after the first opened about two years ago on S. Oneida Street in Ashwaubenon.
Other vacant areas in the Monroe Road corridor are garnering interest; more details expected soon.
