Subway is entering the final stretch of construction before its reopening, which owner Neil Ebeling hopes will be August 13 or 14. The store was initially supposed to reopen in June, but early delays for weather and the removal of remnants of an old gas station put the project behind schedule. That led into schedule juggling with contractors who were working other jobs. But Ebeling says they should be getting the final go-ahead to open the store sometime between August 9-12. “After a bunch of delays that have been out of control with the weather, clearing out the site and everything else we are excited to get going here pretty soon,” said Ebeling. “The exterior should be finishing up. Everything should be finishing up next week. We’re working on getting our final clearance, final approvals between the 9th-12th. As long as there isn’t anything missing that we didn’t think of Tuesday, August 13 or Wednesday, August 14 should be go-time.”
The early delays snowballed into the summer and further delays, but Ebeling says the results will be a nice beautiful store to accommodate Crookston better. “It all just kind of snowballs. You have to wait for concrete because the concrete is already out to other sites and then you can’t install tile floors without the concrete poured. We’ve just been going on best we can. We’ve been rolling with it, and we know everybody is excited for us to open up again,” said Ebeling. “Nobody is more excited then I am. We think we’re going to have a nice beautiful store, with a drive-thru, that is going to accommodate our friends in Crookston better.”
Subway will have a grand reopening down the road, but the original opening will be a soft opening. Although, with the opening coming the week of Ox Cart Days, Ebeling says there is a little fear over how busy they could be right away. “We do have a little bit of fear with that, to be honest,” said Ebeling. “We are doubling our crew size over what we used to have. We have some crew that’s back from the old store and phenomenal manager that is back. But they will still be getting their feet wet and making sandwiches when you’ve made them in several months, plus the newbies are getting going. We’re training and working people in Grand Forks. We’re going to hammer it out the best that we can, with the best crew we can get there. And we’re always looking for more good people to work. It will be a fun place to work with the cool new digs and everything else.”
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