I always assumed they ran into a cash flow problem and had to put development on hold.

That's a shame. Hopefully they're flush enough to start up soon.

I heard it was site contamination that delayed things. Forgot what the source of that info was though, so take it with a grain of salt.

It does appear that there’s been some changes there in the past few months, hopefully they’ve got a path forward.

It's for sale again idk if that means that it's not going through. However it would make sense (sorta) for Dune Brothers to be part of the proposed food hall that is going near where their current location is.

If its the lot south of the bagel company it used to be a gas station so that would make sense. Dune can prob find a better location anyway, maybe up around blackstone

I asked at the other Dune Brothers, and the employees also told me the soil was contaminated and they couldn't build.

Deal fell apart.

I didn't love the location anyway. I'm all for giving North Main a come-up but down there...eh. That's car hell and not going to break up any time soon, not sure I want to sit outside at a picnic table admiring the traffic congestion.

This is a common problem on locations which were once gas stations w/underground holding tanks. In most cases those fuels have seeped out of the tanks and contaminated the ground. To eradicate the issue requires large sums of money in a process called bio-remediation. They actually flood the land with living organisms which eat, (absorb) the toxins. Some service fees can easily rise into the millions.

Yeah, this was a bad location to target in the first place, IMO.

I'm with you on that