Published reports have the popular Chick-Fil-A chain of restaurants finally making their entry into Westchester County, with a proposal to open the chicken stoe on Central Park Avenue in Yonkers. The location is said to be a 2205 Central Park Avenue, the former location of an HSBC bank.
The location is a good one for any fast food type of restaurant, because of all the drivers an activity along Yonkers commercial and retail stretch of properties. And Chick-Fil-A has become so popular that it might increase buyers and shoppers to the area.
Efforts to allow Chick-Fil-A to occupy some of the food locations along the New York State Thruway which are under renovation were objected to by some state legislators because of the companies policies towards the LGBTQ+ community. “We are requesting that you re-examine the list of approved concessions for these rest spots considering Chick-fil-A’s action against the LGBTQ+ community,” said a number of democratic state senators and assemblymembers.
The $1.5 Million project is currently making its way through the building and zoning board process and approval before eventually coming before the City Council for final approval.
All Chick-Fil-A restaurants are closed on Sunday, which originated with the founder, Truett Cathy, closing all of his locations because of his Christian faith. The opinion on whether this helps or hurts business is mixed, with some believing that being closed on a day when most are off from work adds to the desirability to get something that you can’t have all the time. Other’s belive that it makes bad business sense to close any retail chain of store on Sunday.
Currently, the closest Chick-Fil-A locations near Westchester are in Manhattan, or in Danbury, Ct.