MOD Pizza, Starbucks coming to Columbia Center mall. Maybe a burger joint, too
From the developers of the Jamba Juice and Porter’s barbecue in Pasco, comes a new restaurant project at Columbia Center mall.
The Kennewick site along one of the busiest streets in the Tri-Cities will be home to a MOD Pizza, a Starbucks Coffee with a drive-up window and possibly The Habit Burger Grill.
Some of them could open as soon as summer.
Hogback Development Co. of Yakima bought the parking lot parcel off Columbia Center Boulevard from JC Penney, and construction is well underway.
The company’s Facebook page says the design will include a “knife wall” of shiny stainless steel tiles like the ones being used on its latest project for Ted Brown Music in Rainier Square in Yakima.
Habit Burger is in talks with Hogback Development to lease one of three spots in its mall development, the Tri-Cities Area Journal of Business reported.
Habit Burger is a casual restaurant chain based in Irvine, Calif., that specializes in charbroiled hamburgers. Meals can be customized with a condiment bar that includes a variety of peppers, lemons, limes and sauces.
2nd MOD Pizza coming
It will be MOD Pizza’s second restaurant in the Tri-Cities. The first opened in Vintner Square in Richland off Queensgate in 2017,
The restaurant, founded in Seattle in 2008, features Artisan-style pizzas and salads made to order from a selection of some 30 ingredients. It boasts: “The price stays the same no matter what you pick.”
And what’s next for Pasco?
Hogback’s Sandifur Crossing project at Road 68 and Sandifur Parkway is booming.
It’s retail center houses a Dollar Tree, Planet Fitness, Grocery Outlet and Repeat Boutique. And nearby, it built a site for Kabob House and Charter Spectrum.
The latest addition is home to a Jamba Juice and Porter’s Real Barbecue.
And the new Wendy’s restaurant is nearly finished and is beginning to hire.
The company also is putting up another building to house four more tenants, including a doctor and pharmacist.
Hogback’s Facebook site says its next project will be on the nearly 5 acres next door.
Hogback started in December 2013 and focuses on value-added retail in the Pacific Northwest, according to its site.