Photo: Elias Funez
Work was underway Tuesday at 875 Sutton Way in Grass Valley following the demolition of the former Paulette’s Country Kitchen building.
Paulette’s Country Kitchen closed its doors mid-March, around a month after the proposal for a Wendy’s restaurant was presented at a Grass Valley Planning Commission meeting.
According to a January staff report from the city’s Development Review Committee, the Wendy’s project was planned to include the construction of a 2,366-square-foot restaurant building, along with a drive-thru and outdoor seating area.
The report cited the project architect as having found that demolition rather than modification of the existing building was the economical way forward, given the extent of the changes that would have been necessary to meet certain codes as well as Wendy’s functional design criteria. For example, the drive-thru not allowing appropriate distance between ordering, payment, and distribution, according to the report.