Duplex restaurant closes in Lowry Hill District
Business — By Thatcher Imboden on December 18, 2011 2:45 pmDuplex restaurant closed its doors after six years of service, according to Heavy Table and Duplex‘s website. The restaurant was run by a neighborhood couple and had fond reviews. The space at 2516 Hennepin had previously been home to a coffee shop.
Heavy Table tweeted that for those who bought the Duplex Groupon that was valid until March 2012, that Groupon has a policy of refunding people when businesses close.
What will happen to the space and what the restaurateurs will be up to now isn’t clear.
Thatcher Imboden
How cities work and change, how they are the product of their inhabitants and outside forces, and the resulting livability keep me thinking and dreaming about the future. I work in urban real estate development, am Past President of an Uptown business organization, grew up in Uptown, was on an Uptown neighborhood association Board, and am an Uptown and Lyn-Lake historian.
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Sad about the restaurant.
I also had a LivingSocial deal ant they refunded
What’s going on in Uptown ? Businesses are closing left and right and vacant properties are all over the place. Is uptown turning into a state of disrepair? Thoughts?
Turnover always happens. I don’t think there are that many vacant storefronts in Uptown. You can count them almost on on one hand. It’s especially hard to be a restaurant because of all of the competition and the low margins. Uptown has had a lot of new businesses open up recently and compared with a few years ago, Uptown is definitely on the up.
one of the things I would do if I was filthy rich: buy all three of these houses, move them closer together and right up against the sidewalk. Then I would develop the leftover land with a nice tall multi-use.
uh-oh, now im drooling…
Just noticed today that it was closed. I’m kind of irritated, since I bought a gift certificate on the 12th of December and wasn’t notified of the impending closure despite asking the waiter on duty if the gift certificate had an expiration date. (He said there wasn’t one.) Fortunately for me, chargebacks exist.