{"id":2651,"date":"2012-11-29T08:00:46","date_gmt":"2012-11-29T14:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=2651"},"modified":"2012-11-29T01:39:17","modified_gmt":"2012-11-29T07:39:17","slug":"more-changes-in-crossroads-mall-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2012\/11\/more-changes-in-crossroads-mall-area\/","title":{"rendered":"More changes in Crossroads Mall area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First <a href=\"http:\/\/wcfcourier.com\/news\/local\/article_a15b4494-ef0a-11de-ab3e-001cc4c002e0.html\">Waldenbooks closed<\/a>, now this (<a href=\"http:\/\/wcfcourier.com\/news\/local\/govt-and-politics\/bonanza-redevelopment-gets-zoning-ok\/article_23a62aa3-f6ef-5d97-99da-f3eaba2ca1ab.html\">Waterloo Courier<\/a>):<\/p>\n<p><em>Members of the Waterloo Planning, Programming and Zoning Commission voted unanimously Tuesday to recommend a site plan amendment for developers looking to tear down the former Bonanza Steakhouse restaurant at 2027 Crossroads Blvd. and replace it with a nearly 14,000-square-foot retail mall. &#8230; Bonanza closed Oct. 18 after nearly 28 years in business.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve eaten at that Bonanza many, many times. Now there isn&#8217;t one in Waterloo, <a href=\"http:\/\/wcfcourier.com\/news\/local\/article_d63e6b50-3d98-11df-aa8e-001cc4c002e0.html\">Cedar Falls<\/a>, or Marshalltown. And Bishop&#8217;s is closed too.<\/p>\n<p>Besides all that,<a href=\"http:\/\/wcfcourier.com\/business\/local\/update-crossroads-center-in-foreclosure\/article_5f044a76-38b5-11e2-9216-0019bb2963f4.html\"> Crossroads Mall itself is in foreclosure<\/a>. It and the surrounding area are now much different from the 1990s.<\/p>\n<h6>This is a timed post.<\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First Waldenbooks closed, now this (Waterloo Courier): Members of the Waterloo Planning, Programming and Zoning Commission voted unanimously Tuesday to recommend a site plan amendment for developers looking to tear down the former Bonanza Steakhouse restaurant at 2027 Crossroads Blvd. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2012\/11\/more-changes-in-crossroads-mall-area\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iowa-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2651"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2660,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2651\/revisions\/2660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}