Restaurants and Retail

Two Tuscaloosa restaurants owned by the same parent company were closed this week and it's unclear if either will ever reopen their doors.

Ric Flair, one of history's best-known professional wrestlers, has launched a ghost restaurant offering chicken wings out of an existing kitchen here in Tuscaloosa.

Fleet Feet, an athletic shoes and apparel retail chain, will debut its second Alabama store in downtown Tuscaloosa, and it's slated to open in August.

More than a dozen new and improved restaurant and retail options have sprung up in 2022, bringing new places to eat, shop and socialize in Tuscaloosa and Northport.

Check out this list of several local restaurants and businesses in the Tuscaloosa area that have permanently closed since the start of 2022.

Midtown Village's former Frutta Bowls franchise owners have separated from the company and rebranded into their own açaí-based company, Fruit Lovely, which debuted on Thursday.

Skyland Boulevard's discount variety store, Dollar Tree, is remaining next to the now demolished McFarland Mall, despite popular belief.

Zoes Kitchen's only Tuscaloosa location at 312 Merchants Walk in Northport permanently closed its doors Thursday, suspending some of its operations beginning Wednesday.

The board tasked with recruiting and expanding industry in the Tuscaloosa area has a new leader at its helm after a series of meetings this week.

A poultry processor will invest $15 million in a new plant in Tuscaloosa that is expected to create 180 jobs.