Restaurants leave a paper trail before they open: a grease trap, a kitchen hood, a gas line, a change of occupancy. Here is what turned up in the city’s permit file between September 18 and November 6.

Riverfront: two empty buildings waiting for restaurants

On November 3 the city logged two commercial building permits, one at 34 Riverside Dr and one at 151 Riverfront Pkwy, each for a “single story cold dark shell space for a future restaurant tenant.” Both say the owner is still looking for tenants, and the floor plans are placeholders. Neither names a restaurant.

Opening

• 3234 Wilcox Blvd. A certificate of occupancy filed October 22 is for “opening new deli in previous restaurant space,” with a three-compartment sink and a grease trap. A plumbing permit for the sinks and grease trap followed on November 4. An earlier filing at the same address, October 13, is marked stopped.
• 423 Market St. Plumbing and gas permits on October 21 describe a remodel tying into the existing grease trap. An electrical permit on November 6 calls it a “restaurant build out.”
• 5024 Hunter Rd, Suite 106. An October 19 permit moves a patio to the front of “new Mike’s Tavern.”
• 2011 Gunbarrel Rd. Gas and plumbing permits on September 22 are for “restaurant operation.” A commercial demolition permit on October 5 is also listed for a restaurant building at this address.

Rebuilding

• 4502 Rossville Blvd. A run of permits since September 18 rebuilds a fast-food kitchen: new hoods, gas piping, a hand sink and an electrical permit to “replace kitchen equipment due to fire damage.”
• 205 Manufacturers Rd, Suite 100. A new kitchen hood, gas for kitchen equipment and a rerouted grease duct, all marked complete by mid-October.
• 102 Walnut St. A permit filed October 29 covers renovating the fifth-floor rooftop at The Edwin, including removing the existing pool.
• 7752 E Brainerd Rd. A November 4 permit updates the dining room at the Taco Bell.

Closing, as a restaurant

• 4115 Rossville Blvd. A November 5 change of occupancy turns a restaurant space into an office for an insurance agency.

How to read this

Permits are applications and approvals, not promises. Some never get built, some take a year, and a business can change its name between filing and opening. The city’s file doesn’t record restaurant names unless the applicant writes one in, so most of these are addresses for now. We’ll follow up when health inspections or a beer permit show something opening.