A group of investors has abandoned its plans to put a Zaxby’s restaurant in the former Harper’s space in the heart of Five Points, after getting a positive city zoning ruling on its drive-thru. A suit had been filed to appeal the ruling. The building’s owner believes that any fast-food place taking over the higher-end restaurant site would have attracted similar grief, and that seems hard to dispute.
I got a chance to write a year-end story about the many chicken-related disputes roiling chicken-loving Columbia, including the Zaxby’s debate. Did I avoid puns entirely while writing about such a subject? No, I did not.