Kissimmee may face a slippery slope with a new brand eyeing the W192 corridor for its first franchise in Central Florida.

representatives for Small sliders She held a pre-application meeting Tuesday with the Osceola County Development Review Commission to discuss plans to open a slide site in the Village of Wilson Lake. The new Smalls Sliders will be just a short distance from Kissimmee The first White Castle restaurantIt is scheduled to open early next year in the Old City.

Smalls Sliders is one of the fastest growing brands in the restaurant industry, specializing exclusively in fresh, cooked-to-order cheeseburger sliders, fries, waffles and milkshakes. Equipped with a streamlined drive-thru ordering window and a unique modular pick-up and drop-off window, the Atlanta-based brand is poised to grow nationally with locations opening across the Southeast, Southwest, Midwest and West Coast.

Smalls Sliders is the brainchild of restaurateur Brandon Landry, is led by industry veteran Maria Rivera, and is backed by 10 Point Capital and former NFL star Drew Brees as investors. In Florida, the company opened franchise stores in Ocala, Pensacola, and Clearwater. The Kissimmee location will be the company’s first in Central Florida.

Jill Minton of CPH engineers The company was represented during Tuesday’s meeting, which focused on site plan requirements under Osceola’s W192 design guidelines.

Lake Wilson Preserve is located at the intersection of Old Lake Wilson and Funie Steed Roads, just south of US 192 in Kissimmee. Other future tenants at the center include Dutch Bros., Big Dan’s Car Wash and AutoZone. Chick-fil-A was slated to take one of the corner lots but appears to have pulled out of the project, likely due to Osceola County’s explosive growth. Increase in transportation fees For fast food restaurants.

The 124-room ECHO Suites, an extended-stay brand from Wyndham Hotels & Resorts, was also approved as an anchor point in the center and has an approved building permit, but also appears to have backed out of that. This quantity is now listed as available In renting materials from LQ Commercial Real Estate Services

The county raised fees for restaurants with drive-thru windows last year by more than 1,000%, and developers were told they must approve building permits by May to be grandfathered under the old rates. The proposed 5,000-square-foot Chick-fil-A project was facing an increase from $74,010 to $832,240, so the Atlanta company applied for a building permit last November but didn’t get approval in time. The ECHO Suites building permit was approved in May, so it is listed under the previous price.

Even with the new prices, impact fees may be more manageable for concepts like Dutch Bros and Smalls Sliders. The 800-square-foot Smalls Sliders without indoor seating will be charged a move-in fee of $133,158.

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