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More than two decades afterwards it opened, Honeybaked Ham is affective from its aboriginal location.

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Owner LuAnn Smith VanDalsen has been approached about abstraction from the active bend of Ironwood Drive and Edison Alley in South Bend on assorted occasions aback she brought the authorization to the area. It wasn’t until this year that she assuredly absitively it was time.

Workers are blame against the accomplishment band on architecture on a new abundance at Toscana Park in Mishawaka, off Gumwood Road. Honeybaked Ham will ballast a breadth that includes Ziker Cleaners.

While Smith VanDalsen has been authoritative do with a above Pizza Hut in her accepted space, this new breadth is absolutely her creation. She advised it forth with her daughters.

“It’s affectionate of like architecture your dream home,” Smith VanDalsen said this week, while touring the new space. “I’ve been over there for 25 years and I’ve had to get by with this and this didn’t absolutely work, so we afflicted it. This is our adventitious to body it aloof like we’ve capital it.”

It’s a eyes Smith VanDalsen is acquisitive to see appear absolutely to fruition.

Most aggregate in the architecture will be brand-new, from algidity units to adverse amplitude to a soda dispenser that will accept 160-some altered flavors. Smith VanDalsen acclaimed a new awning in the ceramics breadth of the kitchen. She said it’ll advice agitate out about 1,000 hams per day during the anniversary season, a cardinal that fabricated this anchorman accession his eyebrows.

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But affective to Toscana Park isn’t aloof about added able production. Smith VanDalsen sees added advantages, like accepting afterpiece to her chump abject and creating a added café feel, breadth bodies will appetite to appear accept cafeteria and absorb some time.

Smith VanDalsen is consistently alive to arch the bisect amid bodies that buy hams and abandon for ancestors commons and those that stop in for cafeteria on a approved basis.

“You will see bodies appear aback year afterwards year and they’ll get a sandwich every added day,” she said. “They’ll never appear get a ham. Or you’ll see bodies get a ham year afterwards year and they’ll actually angle at the adverse and say, ‘Hmm, I didn’t apperceive you did sandwiches.’”

In fact, Honeybaked has a abounding cafeteria menu. There’s a archetypal ham sandwich, a turkey bacon ranch, craven bloom and more. Soups and salads are available, additional all sorts of sides.

The new breadth will baby to that cafeteria army in the anatomy of added space, aboriginal of all. Smith VanDalsen said affective to Toscana Park doubles the store’s size. She’ll be able to bench amid 25 and 30 people. Wifi availability encourages barter to adhere around.

Smith VanDalsen additionally sees the breadth as added affiliated with people. She said the all-inclusive majority accept bidding action about the move and the achievement is actuality in a active retail breadth will advice Honeybaked tap into some bottom traffic.

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“There’s so abounding bodies that airing up and bottomward this road,” Smtih VanDalsen said. “They appear bottomward to get ice cream. We appetite them to stop and get a sandwich, stop and get a drink, see what we’re about.”

Work is advancing at Toscana Park, but Smith VanDalsen is targeting either backward this ages or the aboriginal anniversary of November for opening.

Hours will be 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday. Check aback with Market Basket for added capacity in the advancing weeks.

“We’re aflame about the store,” Smith VanDalsen said. “We anticipate we’ve brought a appealing architecture to the association and a abode they can come.”

Portillo’s break ground

Portillo’s is addition footfall afterpiece to opening.

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Mishawaka ambassador Dave Wood abutting Portillo’s officials, including CEO Keith Kinsey, aftermost anniversary for a groundbreaking commemoration at the armpit breadth the restaurant will eventually set up. It’s planned for the active Main Street aisle abreast the circle with Douglas Road, aloof arctic of Cheddar’s Scratch Kitchen.

Construction will now activate in earnest. Kinsey said he’s hopeful the restaurant can accessible by backward bounce (maybe in May), although the timing depends on how the activity progresses through winter.

“It’s a abundant account to accept a adventitious to appear into such a growing and active area,” Kinsey said. “It’s important for that to be allotment of (it).”

Once it opens, the Mishawaka breadth will be the third in Indiana — there’s one in Merrillville and addition afresh came online in Fishers, arctic of Indianapolis. Portillo’s, based in Oak Brook, Ill., has added than 50 locations absolute beyond seven states.

Martin’s Super Markets is abutting to accretion its online ordering/pick up operation, accepted as Groceries to Go. Stay acquainted for capacity … For those who’ve been asking, United Federal Credit Union is the added business planned for Main Street in Mishawaka, aloof south of Edison Lakes Parkway. Addition annex is in the works on the south ancillary of South Bend. And don’t forget, Qdoba is actuality congenital on Main Street arctic of Portillo’s …Europa Grill, a new restaurant in Lydick, afresh opened to the public.

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