New restaurant gets Board approval

By Randy Bell

A piece of vacant property along Clinton’s Hampstead Boulevard will soon be occupied after the Board of Aldermen approved architectural plans for a new Tex-Mex restaurant at its May 7 meeting.

Architect Doug Lum told the Board that Pedro’s will be “a festive place, a social place.” He says this will be the company’s sixty-seventh location across Mississippi, Louisiana and Florida.
According to Lum, the restaurant he’s designing will have a distinguishing feature– a tower. “It’s a fancy building,” he says.

Pedro’s will be located at 102 Hampstead, adjacent to Sonny’s BBQ. It will offer a large outdoor dining area which requires the front of the restaurant to face east away from afternoon sun. “It couldn’t face south or west because of the heat,” Lum points out.

Lum says construction should begin soon. “I would think before fall.”