New restaurant opens in downtown Springfield today

A new Wendy’s location opens this morning in downtown Springfield.

The Chamber of Greater Springfield along with the Chamber Ambassadors hosted a ribbon-cutting for the new location of Wendy’s Restaurant at 9:30 a.m. today at 305 W. Columbia St. in downtown Springfield.

DETAILS: $1M Wendy’s being built in downtown Springfield

The restaurant will officially open its doors for the first time at 10 a.m.

The $1 million restaurant, including construction and cost of the property, was built at the site of a former historic building in downtown Springfield. It was built at the former Memorial Hall site.

National Trail Parks and Recreation District sold the 80,000-square-foot property to Sandusky-based Neilson Property Ltd. for $775,000 last June.

Springfield currently has five Wendy’s locations.

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