After a 25-year run, Short Stop Deluxe Burgers is about to dish up its last hamburgers at Platte Avenue and Circle Drive in Colorado Springs. The popular, locally owned burger joint isn’t shutting down, however; it’s just moving east. Short Stop will turn off its broiler at 9 p.m. Saturday for the final time at Platte and Circle, where it operated since 1993 from a free-standing building in the parking lot of the Tower Plaza strip center. National pharmacy chain CVS has purchased Tower Plaza, and plans to raze buildings on site to make way for one of its stores. Business Colorado Springs Airport’s plan to sell 88 acres in business park coincides with Amazon opening tent delivery station Wayne Heilman Short Stop owner Ted Vong opened a mobile unit last month — complete with a drive-thru — in the parking lot of Powers Centre, a shopping center southeast of Powers and Palmer Park boulevards. The location is open Mondays through Saturdays. By January or February, he plans to open a permanent Short Stop building in the Powers Centre lot, similar to the one he operated at Platte and Circle and complete with its familiar fire-engine red awnings. Short Stop’s menu at the new location will continue to include burgers, fries, hot dogs, brats, soft drinks and milk shakes. Business Short Stop Deluxe Burgers on the move to Colorado Springs’ east side Rich Laden Vong, who’s described the move as bittersweet, thanked his customers of 25 years, and said he… [Read full story]
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