Food Hall News
Food hall news for Tuesday, Oct. 6: Wash Ave adds a seventh vendor, Celina maps two food halls and Arcadia Yard clears design review
Wash Ave Food Hall signs Arzola’s and now targets late October or early November, Celina’s development arm reviews a city-owned master plan with a pair of food hall buildings, Columbus signs off on Arcadia Yard’s design and Crooked Can’s Minneola hall is still opening its last stalls.
- 1Opening soonSt. Louis
Wash Ave Food Hall signs Arzola’s Tacos y Más and now plans a late October or early November opening
Wash Ave Food Hall
St. Louis Magazine and Sauce Magazine reported Oct. 5 that Arzola’s Tacos y Más, a new fast-casual concept from the owners of Arzola’s Fajitas & Margaritas, will be a founding vendor at Wash Ave Food Hall, 1122 Washington Ave. The St. Louis Business Journal said that brings the hall to seven confirmed vendors, with room for eight food vendors and two bars. St. Louis Magazine now puts the opening at late October or early November, after earlier reports targeted October, and says the final vendors will be announced this month. Co-owner Ron Webb told the magazine that opening the group’s second brick-and-mortar location took “an immense amount of heavy lifting” and that the food hall model “allowed for a much smoother transition.”
Why it matters Webb’s comments show why a ready-built stall can appeal to an established local restaurant that wants to grow without building out another full location.
Sources: St. Louis Magazine, Oct. 5, 2026; Sauce Magazine, Oct. 5, 2026; St. Louis Business Journal, Oct. 5, 2026Browse our Missouri guide - 2DevelopmentCelina, Texas
Celina’s draft master plan for a city-owned tract includes a pair of food hall buildings
Willock tract (proposed food halls)
The Celina Economic Development Corporation’s board was set to review the Willock Master Plan for its roughly 32-acre tract near downtown at its Oct. 6 meeting, according to the agenda packet. The plan, prepared by Norris Design with JHP and Catalyst Commercial, shows a pair of food hall buildings at Oklahoma Drive and Ash Street on about 2.2 acres that can hold roughly 18,000 square feet, aimed at a family-friendly setting and farm-to-table food. The consultants estimate the food hall, brewery and restaurant area at 57,000 square feet and about $37 million in taxable value at full build-out. Community Impact reported that the EDC bought the land for $13.5 million in 2024 and will present the plan to the City Council on Oct. 13, with rezoning, infrastructure and securing tenants among the next steps.
Why it matters When a city’s development arm owns the land and draws food halls into its master plan, their size and location are being set before any developer or operator has been chosen.
Sources: Celina EDC agenda packet (Willock Master Plan), Oct. 6, 2026 meeting; Community Impact, Oct. 2, 2026Browse our Texas guide - 3DevelopmentColumbus, Ohio
Arcadia Yard, an eight-kitchen food hall plan for a vacant Columbus utility site, wins design approval
Arcadia Yard (planned)
Columbus Business First reported Oct. 1 that the design for Arcadia Yard won approval from the city panel that oversees architecture in the neighborhood. The plans, filed for 21 E. Arcadia Ave. near Clintonville, would turn two long-vacant brick buildings built in 1949 for Columbus and Southern Ohio Electric into a food hall with four vendor kitchens in each building, dining areas, a bar and lounge, a rooftop terrace and a shared courtyard, according to Columbus Navigator’s May report on the filing. Business First described the project in June as the third idea in a decade to bring life to the fenced-off former AEP substation.
Why it matters A small hall built from modular kitchens inside existing buildings is one way developers are taking on sites where earlier redevelopment plans have fallen through.
Sources: Columbus Business First, Oct. 1, 2026; Columbus Navigator (background on the plans), May 11, 2026; Columbus Business First (background), June 26, 2026Browse our Ohio guide - 4OpeningMinneola, Fla.
Crooked Can’s Minneola food hall is still opening its last stalls 11 weeks after debut
City Center Market at Crooked Can
Crooked Can Brewing Co. opened its roughly 43,000-square-foot Minneola complex at Hills City Center on July 15 with just hours’ notice, and the Daily Commercial said then that the rest of the City Center Market food hall stalls would roll out over the coming weeks. A Daily Commercial photo tour published Sept. 30 showed Three Birds Cafe, Daniel’s Cheesesteaks, This Little Piggy, AJ’s Pizza, Sir Benji’s and a Brazilian counter open, while dim sum, noodles and sushi were still listed as coming soon and Pita Mediterranean Street Food was about a month from opening. The Orlando Real reported in June that the 11 vendors were chosen from more than 100 applicants and that Crooked Can’s Plant Street Market in Winter Garden would keep operating.
Why it matters Opening before every stall is built lets the brewery and the first vendors start selling sooner, while the rest of the lineup arrives over months instead of on day one.
Sources: Daily Commercial (photo tour), Sept. 30, 2026; Daily Commercial (opening), July 16, 2026; The Orlando Real (background), June 29, 2026Browse our Florida guide
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