Restaurants

La Grande Orange scraps plans for Phoenix café

Patrons dine outdoors at the La Grande Orange Café location in Pasadena, California, which closed earlier this year. LGO Hospitality was planning a café location, though not necessarily under the same name, at the northwest corner of 40th Street and Meadowbrook Avenue in Phoenix but withdrew the rezone application after the village planning committee recommended it be denied.

(Courtesy LGO Hospitality)

LGO Hospitality, which operates the La Grande Orange restaurants, last week withdrew a rezoning request with the city of Phoenix to add a new restaurant to the city.

“After further discussion, we as a group have decided not to move forward with the rezoning project,” Caroline Lynn, attorney for LGO Hospitality stated in an email to the city on July 22.

The rezone request was officially withdrawn during the Thursday, Aug. 7, planning commission meeting.

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