{"id":344307,"date":"2026-06-20T22:14:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T22:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/344307\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T22:14:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T22:14:07","slug":"it-was-a-sick-feeling-p-terrys-ceo-on-closure-of-flagship-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/344307\/","title":{"rendered":"“It was a sick feeling” P. Terry’s CEO on closure of flagship store"},"content":{"rendered":"

AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 After about 10 years, P. Terry\u2019s is saying goodbye to their flagship location to make room for the I-35 expansion. P. Terry\u2019s founder and CEO Patrick Terry said the location, which is open 24 hours a day, will shut down on June 28.<\/p>\n

TxDOT\u2019s I-35 Capital Express Central project plans to add two extra lanes to the highway, which will act as transit lanes for CapMetro buses and carpoolers.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis will allow more people to move through the corridor in fewer vehicles,\u201d said TxDOT in their overview of the project.<\/p>\n

Terry said he has known about the expansion project for a couple of years, but he just didn\u2019t know when it would start due to the many delays that happened in the last few years.<\/p>\n

Terry was notified about the confirmation of the project six weeks ago. It was difficult to process, he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cHonestly, there was this sick feeling in this building,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd then to all of a sudden have this void happen pretty much overnight, it was a sick feeling.\u201d<\/p>\n

RELATED: P. Terry’s Capital Plaza flagship location to close as I-35 expansion moves forward<\/a><\/p>\n

Terry considers the Capital Plaza location to be special for a variety of reasons. Aside from its unique architectural structure, the restaurant\u2019s location next to the busy highway made it easily accessible to the local community.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is our billboard for a couple hundred thousand cars daily driving by I-35. This feeds a part of the city that has really come out,\u201d Terry said. \u201cMan, they\u2019ve really been with us since day one.\u201d<\/p>\n

Terry said their flagship location is especially busy after UT football games and is popular with those who work near the area, who many have dubbed to be \u201ctheir\u201d P. Terry\u2019s.<\/p>\n

The company is in the process of looking for another location nearby.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe want to fill the void,\u201d Terry said. \u201cThis is a hard one to duplicate though.\u201d<\/p>\n

But while Terry is sad to see the flagship restaurant go, he said he understands TxDOT is just \u201cdoing their job.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have clearly benefited from the growth of this community over the last 20 years. It\u2019s hard to complain about it right now,\u201d he said. \u201cWe\u2019ll just move on. We\u2019ll be okay.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 After about 10 years, P. Terry\u2019s is saying goodbye to their flagship location to make…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":344308,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-344307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344307\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/344308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}