One of the most conspicuous – and conspicuously vacant – spots on Prospect Avenue has just been spoken for. The rambling 25,000-square-foot space at 724 Prospect Avenue, which has housed everything from Diamondback Brewery and Phil the Fire to R.J. Boland’s, where every booth had its very own television, will become a Buffalo Wild Wings.

Richard Andrews, owner of BW3 spots in Lyndhurst, Bainbridge, Sandusky and Cleveland Heights, has inked a deal to open a new location downtown, a fact confirmed by Brad Kowit, partner in Kowit & Company Real Estate Group.

The restaurant and bar will occupy only the main level, a 6,500-square-foot space. 

BW3 started in 1982 with a single shop near the campus of The Ohio State University and has since grown to more than 900 locations. This particular location just so happens to be located down the block from Winking Lizard, which started in 1983 with a single shop in Bedford Heights and has since grown to more than 20 locations.

Of course, both of these spots are within walking distance to Quicken Loans Arena and The Jake.
No word yet on an ETA for opening day. 

This article appears in Oct 21-27, 2015.

For 25 years, Douglas Trattner has worked as a full-time freelance writer, editor and author. His work as co-author on Michael Symon's cookbooks have earned him four New York Times Best-Selling Author honors, while his longstanding role as Scene dining editor has garnered awards of its own.

5 replies on “Prime Gateway Spot Claimed by BW3”

  2. OUR STORY
    It all started in 1982 with one restaurant in Columbus, OH. Since then we’ve grown to have a store in every state in the U.S. and continue to open B-Dubs® around the world (you’re welcome, Earth).

  4. Buffalo Wild Wings was co-founded in 1982 by Jim Disbrow and Scott Lowery. Disbrow and Lowery came up with the idea one weekend when they got together in Kent, Ohio, for Disbrow to a judge an amateur figure skating competition at Kent State University in 1980. They decided to open up their own restaurant, first in Columbus, Ohio, and then in Westerville, Ohio one year later.[2]

  5. Kohler, you may want to take another look at the menu. The menu says two guys moved from Buffalo to Kent. It says nothing about where they put the first location. Buffalo Wild Wings & Weck, it was located close to my apartment on North High Street. I’ve always personally considered it odd that two guys that…uh…liked figure skating, left Buffalo, drove to Ohio, and the first thing that popped into their minds was, “BARBECUED CHICKEN WINGS AND CRAPPY BEEF ON A KAISER ROLL AND MAYBE A TV SHOWING SPORTS!” But that’s just me.

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