The Le Mars Pizza Hut moved a short distance down Business Highway 75 in late January.
The restaurant is now located one one end of a retail center built by the local Pizza Hut franchisee, Staab Management Co.
The new digs offer larger seating and a more modern design than the Pizza Hut’s former leased space in a 30-year-old building at 835 Hawkeye Ave.
“Once the lease was up at the end of last December, we knew we needed to do something,” Staab Management’s Mike Staab. “The property was pretty worn out.
In smaller markets like Le Mars, “it’s been real tough from a revenue standpoint,” to build a structure soley for a Pizza Hut. To share its fixed costs with other tenants, the developers built the retail center, located between an Arby’s and 4 Brothers Bar & Grill in a new commercial area on the southwest end of the community.