Restaurants and Retail

Residents over the weekend were asking why the Chick-Fil-A on Skyland Boulevard was shut down, with reps from the restaurant telling the Tuscaloosa Thread they are undergoing renovations.

A high-end boutique born in the heart of New Orleans is coming soon to downtown Tuscaloosa, where a University of Alabama student and her parents will offer women's fashion and accessories.

A Mexican restaurant in Tuscaloosa is open again after relocating to make way for the city's first standalone Raising Cane's.

One of the largest corporate Western wear and boot emporiums is coming soon to Tuscaloosa's Midtown Village shopping center, they announced in a Tuesday press release.

Three titans of Alabama's hospitality industry are joining forces to bring a first-of-its-kind New York-style pizzeria to a renovated space in downtown Tuscaloosa.

Auburn's Smalls Sliders is hitting pause, but the chain still plans to open in Tuscaloosa.

Hopes that a new Buc-ees or another mega-size service station was coming to West Alabama are on ice for now after Demopolis withdrew proposed legislation to annex a huge tract of land for commercial development.

The Tuscaloosa City Council voted on Tuesday to indefinitely table a vote on granting a tax incentive for a developer to demolish two dozen homes and build a shopping center featuring new-to-market restaurants and retailers.

The Hotel Capstone, a longstanding fixture on the University of Alabama campus, will convert into a Graduate by Hilton by the end of next year.

Construction is set to begin next week on the transformative but hotly controversial University Beach, a $350 million lagoon resort planned for Highway 82 in Northport, its lead developer said Friday.