Highlights

LGO Hospitality, which operates the La Grande Orange restaurants, withdrew a rezoning request with the city of Phoenix last week, ending plans to open a new café location in the city.

"After further discussion, we as a group have decided not to move forward with the rezoning project," Caroline Lynn, attorney for LGO Hospitality, stated in an email to the city on July 22.

The rezone request was officially withdrawn during the Thursday, Aug. 7, Phoenix Planning Commission meeting. The proposed site was the northwest corner of 40th Street and Meadowbrook Avenue in Phoenix. A village planning committee had recommended the rezoning be denied before LGO pulled the application.

The planned café was not necessarily going to carry the La Grande Orange name, according to the Daily Independent, which first reported the withdrawal.

Around the web

Public conversation is minimal. One Reddit post with moderate engagement discusses a separate Phoenix development issue—the Coronado Hotel demolition—unrelated to the LGO Hospitality rezoning withdrawal. No direct discussion of the café plans or rezoning decision detected.

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