WICHITA — Pacific Coast Pizza and Walkers Bar and Venue were supposed to open next to Intrust Bank Arena in March, but they’re still not in business yet.
While construction and other delays are common when opening restaurants, there are more than typical delays happening here.
“Just some unforeseen events came up,” says building owner Ryan Mills.
He says the restaurants will still open at 222 S. Commerce St. That’s at the south end of a series of buildings attached to the back of the former Spaghetti Works space, which is east of the arena.
“The project … hit some hurdles that were in the road and caused us to kind of take a step back and regroup, and we encountered some challenges that we didn’t necessarily think were going to happen,” Mills says.
He won’t go into details, but he says there are issues on his end and with restaurateurs Aaron Moore and Rusty Law.
“I would say there’s been challenges on both sides that need to be worked out,” Mills says. “There’s some things … I’ve been working on for the past few weeks and anticipate in a very short period of time those things coming together.”
Some of the challenges are financial.
“We’re working through a couple of different options for how to fund the rest of the project,” Mills says.
