In the Region section of the Times Daily (Sunday edition) besides news of a potential new WalMart Supercenter on Cloverdale and dedicated WalMart food store along Florence Blvd there was a statement that a new Steakhouse will be built along Florence Blvd as well but no name was dropped or mentioned. The name of the steakhouse was not revealed but rather news that some unnamed new steakhouse would be coming to the Florence Blvd area.
Granted it could be one of many different stores but I hope that it will be a Longhorn Steakhouse. We were told during a visit to the Huntsville Longhorn a month or so ago that Longhorn (same owners as Olive Garden & Red Lobster) was looking at expanding into either the Florence or Scottsboro areas. In my mind Longhorn is the top shelf quality of Chain Steakhouses along with Outback. At least there appears to be quite a bit of new growth coming to the area, quite possibly due to the Navstar news but whatever the reasons I'm glad to hear more growth is coming to the area.