In May we reported that a new group of owners was planning a multi-million dollar renovation to the Breckenridge Village shopping center.

New owners include The Kelley Group, the Keet Family, Dale V. “Bo” Briggs and the Nashville-based Bodnar Group.

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We figured that it was fairly safe to assume that a Waldo’s Chicken & Beer would be coming to the center because it was included in the rendering and the Keet family’s JTJ Restaurant Group recently opened one in North Little Rock at 4221 Warden Road.

Shortly after the May announcement, there was a rumor being floated that Deluca’s Pizzeria, Anthony Valinoti’s popular Hot Springs Brooklyn-style pizza joint, would be one of the restaurants. We could not confirm that rumor at the time. Arkansas Business reported today that Deluca’s is one of the new restaurants planned for the shopping center, and it could be open in the next 12-14 months.

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Other restaurants planned for the shopping center:

The restaurant lineup envisioned for the shopping center, the Keets said, includes:

  • Eat My Catfish, already at Breckenridge and which will remain there. Its owner, Travis Hester, is a partner in the project. (Hester is also a partner in the redevelopment of the Riverdale Shopping Center at 2500-2610 Cantrell Road, which will also feature an Eat My Catfish restaurant.)

  • A Waldo’s Chicken & Beer.

  • The Flyway Taproom, a gastropub owned and operated by Flyway Brewing Co. of North Little Rock. Brayan Mcfadden, the chef at Brood & Barley in North Little Rock, a project of Flyway Brewing, will be developing the menu for the restaurant, Tommy Keet said. Matt Foster and Jess McMullen are the owners of Flyway and Brood & Barley.

Keet told Arkansas Business that “there were no definite plans” for Mt. Fuji, the Japanese restaurant that has been in the complex since the mid-1980s, according to food historian Kat Robinson.

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Jim Keet confirmed to Arkansas Business that Regal UA Breckenridge movie theater would remain in the complex.

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