Going up: Permits were pulled Friday for the construction of Golden Corral’s new restaurant at The Greens at Millerville. The buffet chain is closing its current location at 5252 S. Sherwood Forest Blvd. and is building a new $1.3 million restaurant in developer Windy Gladney’s 56-acre planned development at Interstate 12 and Millerville Road. The new restaurant will be 11,907 square feet, bigger than the restaurant’s current 10,375-square-foot building, which was listed for sale in June for $1.9 million. The Greens at Millerville also will be home to a Zaxby’s, a small retail shopping center, a Buc-ee’s, Richards Honda, a sales and service center for the RV Shop and a 320-unit apartment complex.
Taking it in: Oil and gas producers are pulling more natural gas out of U.S. wells than they have in decades while U.S power plants are using even more than is produced, FuelFix.com reports. In July, the United States posted a net summer withdrawal for the first time in 10 years, according to a U.S. Department of Energy report released today. The department’s Energy Information Administration says record consumption of natural gas for electric power generation required 6 billion cubic feet of natural gas storage inventories, the first nationwide withdrawal since 2006. Total natural gas inventories, however, still stand at 3.3 trillion cubic feet, 16% higher than recent five-year averages. Read the full story.
Opposing sides: While touring a Florida brewery, Democrat presidential nominee Hillary Clinton has vowed more support for small businesses. The Associated Press reports that Clinton, at 3 Daughters Brewing, a craft beer brewery in St. Petersburg, Florida, said she wanted to help small companies grow and pledged to be a “small business president.” She criticized Republican president nominee Donald Trump’s business record, saying he had “stiffed” small companies throughout his career. Trump, meanwhile, assailed Clinton’s economic promises in a speech at the Detroit Economic Club today, arguing that he would do more for jobs and the economy through tax cuts. He also rolled out a slew of new economic proposals such as eliminating the “death tax.” Clinton did not directly address his remarks at the brewery. Read the full story.
