191 Retail Round-up: A new bar, Cork-and-Pig Market, and a new Petco

Two of Odessa's growing retail hubs will add businesses in the coming months that include a new cocktail lounge, a new version of a popular restaurant and a big-box pet store as building along the rapidly growing corridor keeps apace despite a downturn in oil and gas activity.

Construction workers at the Parks Legado Town Center on Tuesday continued building two new additions that developer Collin Sewell said should open this summer.

One is an expansion of Cork and Pig into an adjacent suite of the retail strip. Called Cork and Pig Market, the new restaurant will focus on take-out items such as pizza and caf-style dining.

The restaurant, more than 1,900 square feet, should open as early as May, Sewell said.

The other development is a new cocktail lounge, Proof, targeting a June 4 grand opening in a more than 2,400-square-feet space on the opposite side of the town center.

The idea is for an upscale bar offering craft beers and a cocktail menu while disallowing smoking and blaring music, said Colby Brazile, one of several local partners behind the project. He is also building the interior through his firm Brazile Design and Construction. There will also be an "etiquette" guideline that includes a dress code.

"We are invested in this, and we don't want to turn it into just a bar," Brazile said. "We are trying to make it a nice environment. It's going to be a wonderful place for people to visit and come have an evening cocktail before dinner or after dinner.

The business will have two mixologists and 15 servers for a capacity of about 100 patrons, Brazile said. Dallas bartenders are helping to develop the lounge.

Building permits showed initial estimates for both of the Parks Legado interior build-outs in the $300,000-to-$350,000 range.

Further west, a big-box mattress store is joining Chimney Rock. City records detail a more than $1.4 million permit for a shell building and another $1.5 million permit for tenant improvements at the same address. So far, a concrete shell is underway.

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