West Bend, WI – Signage is in place at the new Panera Bread restaurant on the southeast corner of Parkway Drive and W. Paradise Drive in West Bend, Wi, as the opening date has been released.
Construction on the Panera and Chipotle has been moving slowly since the Shell gas station, that used to hold down that corner, was demolished in April 2022.
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Panera Bread will close its Main Street store September 18 and the new location on Paradise Drive will open September 21. The Chipotle is slated to open at the end of October 2023.
Neighbors have asked what will happen to the Panera Bread on S. Main Street when the new location opens. Early indications are the employees at the S. Main Street store will move to the new Paradise Drive location.
Plans for the new restaurants were reviewed and approved in April 2022. Demolition of the former Shell gas station was completed and then in September 2022 neighbors questioned why the projects had foundations poured but no progress for eight weeks.
At the time City Engineer Max Marechal said the slowdown was due to a change in location of the water lateral.
In May 2023, a full year since the project got underway and within the past week the red bricks went up on the exterior of the Panera and the windows were put in place for Chipotle.
It was March 18, 2022 when WashingtonCountyInsider.com brought you the news about the possible development.
That’s the location of the old Shell gas station. PPM Development, LLC out of Brookfield is the corporate name for gas station property.
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The closest Chipotle location is off Appleton Avenue in Menomonee Falls.
Panera Bread currently has a location at 1608 S. Main Street, West Bend, WI. Customers will concur the area is a bit tight on parking. The trendy franchise cafe also has no drive thru. That Panera on S. Main Street also shares a small strip mall location with another outlet, AT&T Store, just east of the Paradise Pavilion.
CSM-22-004 a certified survey map to create two lots located at the southeast corner of
Parkway Drive and W. Paradise Drive, by Ram Subedi, PMM Development, LLC.
Ram Subedi, PMM Development, LLC.
Applicant: Ram Subedi
PMM Development, LLC
12660 W. Capital Drive, Ste 200
Brookfield, WI
Agent: Don Chaput
Chaput Land Surveys
234 W. Florida St. #306
Milwaukee, WI
Site plan for a commercial redevelopment at 815 W. Paradise Drive, by PMM
Development, LLC.
Applicant: Ram Subedi
PMM Development, LLC
12660 W. Capital Drive, Ste 200
Brookfield, WI
Agent: Adam Stein
Logic Design and Architecture, Inc.
802 N. 109th Street
Milwaukee, WI
