Tony Sacco's Coal Oven Pizza Looks to Open Location in Hartland
Township to discuss approval of a liquor license for the restaurant at tonight's board meeting.
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A new restaurant may soon be coming to Hartland.
Tony Sacco’s Coal Oven Pizza, is a chain restaurant with locations currently in Ann Arbor, Grand Rapids, Novi, Lansing and Traverse City, according to their website.
The ownership group, TSP Hartland, will be asking for approval for one of Hartland Township's Class C liquor licenses during Tuesday night’s Board of Trustees meeting.
The township currently has three liquor licenses available and according to Hartland Township Planner Dave Campbell, the restaurant will need the liquor license to consider moving forward in Hartland.
“Their business model is to have beer and wine and some cocktails and I don’t think they would want to open if they don’t have that,” he said.
Their menu includes a variety of items including salads, sandwiches and pizza, with their cooking done in a custom-built, 1000 degree anthracite coal-burning oven, according to the website.
The pizza restaurant is currently looking at the former Blockbuster location in the Waldenwoods Shopping Center and according to Campbell, hopes to begin construction in May with an opening sometime in August.
“They have a couple steps to go through,” Campbell said. “They need the liquor license approval and they need the site plan approval.”
Bj McDevitt
8:08 am on Tuesday, March 5, 2013
I would have thought Gus's would have signed some sort of exclusivity clause into their lease agreement, keeping other pizza places from moving in two doors down.
Shawn Austin
2:21 pm on Thursday, March 28, 2013
Ideally that might be the case for them but they might have not have held the hammer on this at the time. The building was full and it is a preumium location. Besides, Burger King, Wendys, and McDonalds all within five or six hundred feet. Walmart and Meijer are right across the street. Red Olive and Big Boy are accross the street with Leo's within a stones throw. Gas stations, banks and grocery stores do it everywhere. Hartland is starving (no punn intended) for more restaraunts and I guess for the consumer it's agood thing...and lastly how often do you get a sit-down pizza joint that's not called Pizza Hut anyways! Cheers!