Plans are officially underway for a popular Texas fried chicken joint to take over part of an old bookstore in Austin.
Weeks before Tumble 22 opens a restaurant in Northwest Austin’s Arboretum shopping center, state filings revealed last week remodeling is expected to begin soon for the brand’s other new location, which will be in the city’s South Lamar section.
The hot chicken chain filed a permit Oct. 6 to the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation for a 3,500-square-foot restaurant at 3001 S. Lamar Blvd., Bldg. G, Suite 200. That is not the address Tumble 22’s website has marked for the future South Lamar restaurant, listed as 2929 S. Lamar Blvd., about a tenth of a mile away.
As the Austin Business Journal previously reported, Tumble 22 is taking part of the former South Lamar Half Price Books space, which was subdivided with Frost Bank and a yoga studio. Half Price Books vacated the space in March and will soon move into a property over on South 1st Street; for the moment, it has a temporary space serving residents at 3005 S. Lamar…