Is Dave & Buster's of Dallas coming to Rogers' Pinnacle Hills Promenade Mall?
There is a rumor the Dallas-based restaurant-entertainment chain has set its sights on the former food court area of the mall. Dave & Buster's has been advertising employment opportunities in northwest Arkansas.
Dave & Buster's opened a location in June 2016 in Little Rock, the first Dave & Buster's in the state.
David Faulkner, the general manager of Pinnacle Hills Promenade, said the mall is close to disclosing a new tenant for the 27,000-SF facility that used to be the mall's food court. The building, directly in front of the Malco Pinnacle Hills 12 movie theater, has been used as a special events center for more than a year, Faulkner said.
If Dave & Buster's does move into the facility, Whispers hears it would take 20,000 SF for a smaller-concept restaurant. The Little Rock Dave & Buster's is in a 30,000-SF space.
Faulkner wouldn't confirm or deny which restaurant was moving into the space, but he did say the new tenant was taking 20,000 SF, leaving 7,000 SF for the mall to still hold meetings and special events.
Faulkner was much more open about two restaurants scheduled to open later this year at the mall: Big Orange Northwest and MidiCi. Big Orange, a restaurant by Yellow Rockets Concepts of Little Rock, and MidiCi, a brick-oven pizza chain based in Sherman Oaks, California, will be side-by-side on Promenade Drive. Faulkner said the mall paid to have a half-moon drop-off site built in front of the two restaurants.
Yellow Rockets Concepts is also planning to open a Local Lime restaurant at the former site of the Texas Land & Cattle, Faulkner said.
"It's exciting to bring in some new restaurants to give people options," Faulkner said. "Right now you hear that malls are dying. These restaurants are good examples that malls are alive and well."