Ten Bethesda-area restaurants that opened during the pandemic signal hope for better days and nights to come By David Hagedorn |
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Rosemary Bistro Cafe’s bouillabaisse is packed with mussels, squid, shrimp, scallops, red snapper, monkfish and vegetables, and served with baguette slices with garlic saffron aioli. Photo by Deb Lindsey
Rosemary Bistro Cafe
Upper Northwest D.C.
“Have you eaten with us before?” Fred Darricarrere asks when I call in an order to Rosemary Bistro Cafe, the restaurant he opened in Upper Northwest D.C. in July. “No,” I reply, not letting on that I’m a restaurant critic. “Ah! It’s a cold winter night, so I’ll add a warm baguette as a thank you. It will soak up all those good juices of your boeuf bourguignon and bouillabaisse.” In my follow-up reporting, he sends a video of the 2,000-square-foot interior, with its gold tin ceiling, skylights, vintage French travel posters, mustard-colored floor and stunning Medusa-like red an
A new car wash is also underway at Hidden Valley, near KFC and the hospital.
Plans for office buildings at 76 Queen Street, Yeppoon, were submitted to council by Real Earth Development and are pending approval.
The floor plan for the proposed creche includes a staffroom, bathroom, laundry, store rooms, office, reception, breakout room, sleep nook, kitchen, cleaners, general learning area, amenities and outdoor play areas and spaces.
Another child care centre is in the approval process.
The 155-place child care which would employ 22 staff, has been proposed to be built at 9 and 11 Tanby Road, Yeppoon.
Plans were submitted in April and is under council review.
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Rockhampton’s commercial development industry is absolutely booming post-COVID with works about to begin on countless projects.
Come five weeks time, there will be two new service stations under construction, joining the plethora of approved developments beginning. The Mobil service stations will be built by Sydney-based group, RCI Group, on Queen Elizabeth Drive and Albert Street.
The service stations are expected to take three to four months to complete and will employ around 10 staff each once open.
The Queen Elizabeth Drive facility is on the site of the Capricorn Caravan Centre.
The Northside service station will have eight fuel bowsers, a retail shop, water and air station and a dog wash.
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The developers of the well established, residential estate north of Rockhampton, Paramount Park, have lodged plans for six more stages.
The developers lodged plans to develop one lot off the Bruce Highway at Rockyview into 37 new lots for the stage 7A to 7F.
The new subdivision has been designed to be consistent with the existing estate.
No road works have been proposed in this application and will be done so in the operational works proposal.
All lots will have access to a newly constructed road.
The site has existing approvals from January 2017 and October 2020.
The new lots vary in size from 4041 sqm up to 6842 sqm.