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Great maple la jolla utc12/25/2023 ![]() ![]() Disney revealed the news at its D23 Expo in September, announcing that as part of the Paradise Pier Hotel’s reimagining as the Pixar Place hotel, the Great Maple will open a flagship restaurant on the first floor and others throughout the property. The decision to close the UTC location comes as Great Maple owners prepare for their next big venture – a restaurant at Disneyland. In the same year, Great Maple opened in Paseo, an outdoor mall in Pasadena. It also had a restaurant at the Del Amo Fashion Center in Torrance, but it closed after just two years, in 2017. Known for its upscale comfort food – and large maple bacon donuts – the Great Maple first opened in Newport Beach in 2011 and two years later in Hillcrest where it took over the former Brian’s American eatery. “Being right on Genesee, we originally thought it would be to our advantage because of the traffic on Genesee, but now we have this beautiful courtyard, with a jackhammer and a dump truck as background.” “The pandemic was damaging to everyone, but we had built a lot on Genesee with light rail from the beginning, and then after that ended, it was decided to blow the block away from us, so we’re building one.” Sitting in the area. ![]() “It was like a triple threat,” Ho said of the challenges facing the Great Maple’s UTC location. Plans to overhaul the center, which is expected to take 30 months to complete, entitle the site’s already 178,000 square feet of retail space in addition to up to 400,000 square feet of office and laboratory space and a 200-room hotel. Located at the terminus of the new UC San Diego Blue Line extension, the Costa Verde Center was best known for the now-closed Bristol Farms grocery store. However, what they did not count on was the longer than expected construction period for the mid-coast extension of the San Diego Trolley, followed by a more recent construction project on the street where the Costa Verde strip mall is now undergoing a major transformation. ![]() Before the UTC restaurant opened, the owners had bet that the location on Genesee Street would be more conducive to business than being inside the mall. ![]()
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