KUTZTOWN, Pennsylvania  – Jasdeep and Rajni Grewal of Center Valley have purchased 163 West Main Street near the university and plan to open an Indian restaurant at the site.  The restaurant will feature North and South Indian cuisine, but they have not yet decided on a name.

Jeff Barber of Lehigh Financial Group, LLC, in Allentown, helped arrange the commercial financing for the Grewals to buy the building and open the restaurant.

Rajni Grewal grew up in the restaurant business. Her parents own Indian restaurants in New Jersey and her cousins own Indian restaurants in New Jersey and Easton, near Lafayette College. The Grewals will hire a chef for their new restaurant, but Jasdeep says he likes to cook and plans to help out.

They hope to open the restaurant by the end of April.

They plan to add some equipment and make some cosmetic changes to the building, which had been a restaurant before it closed. They also plan to add some seating and remodel the bathroom. “Before we open, we want to make it a place that people want to come and have food that is wow,” Jasdeep said.

Plans are to open the restaurant at 11 a.m. for lunch, close for dinner prep at 2:30, and reopen at 5. However, Jasdeep said their plans could change depending on traffic and what others in the area do.

The Grewals own two 7-Elevens in the Lehigh Valley area, one on Susquehanna Street in Allentown and one in Richlandtown. Because of Rajni’s family background, they had wanted to add a restaurant to their portfolio. Jasdeep said he had been looking at commercial real estate sites for a while when he saw this opportunity and thought the location in a college town ideal.

Barber said he is confident that their restaurant will be popular and a success particularly in this location with Kutztown University students and local residents.

The buyers were represented by Ken Palumbo of Howard Hanna Commercial Real Estate in Allentown.

 

Information provided to TVL by:
Beth Orenstein on behalf of:
Lehigh Financial Group, LLC
122 North 5th Street
Allentown Pa 18102
http://www.lehighfinancialgroup.com/

 

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