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Barbecue Oasis

The family friendly hipness keeps on coming to Garland Road.

Central Texas-style barbecue in an indoor/outdoor dining space is planned for the corner of Lakeland at Garland.

Oasis Smokehouse, from Jeremy DeLeon and partners, could open sometime this winter.

The site most recently housed Personal Touch Tree Service and the adjacent Ross and Greenville Automotive; both businesses relocated earlier this year.

Jack Keller of Keller’s Drive-In, who owns the properties, has been saying for years that he’d like a restaurant there that caters to the neighborhood.

The Oasis’ owners are recycling and reformatting the existing auto shop building and adding 2,700-square-feet of indoor space with seating for 120-130.

Casa Linda pops

Steel City Pops is expected to open its new location in Casa Linda Plaza as early as this month.

The shop, adjacent to Sample House & Candle Shop, will be the fourth Steel City Pops location in the Dallas area, including the one that opened on Lowest Greenville last year. A former artists’ loft space inside is being finished out to create a hangout while people enjoy ice pops; there will also be an outdoor patio.

Food and bev bites

Chick-fil-A is building on the site of the former Legal Directories Publishing, 9111 Garland Road at Oldgate.

Unleavened Fresh Kitchen opened in September in Lakewood Shopping Center, next to Liberty Burger.

A liquor store, Lower G Spirits and Cigars, opened across the street from Granada Theater.

Vagabond, the Greenville Avenue bar across the street from Green Grocer, has closed after a year in business.

Shopping notes

The T Shop moved to another location within Lakewood Shopping Center, the former Uptown Yoga spot. The move triples the T Shop’s space.

A Kit and Ace store that opened on North Henderson recently is the Vancouver-based clothing company’s first Texas location. The shop sells “technical cashmere” that’s stylish, comfortable and easy, if pricey. Their $90 T-shirt is machine washable.

Real estate

The old carwash, on a wedge-shaped lot on Live Oak at La Vista, is being scraped for a Methodist Health System doctor’s office with up to three primary care physicians.

Construction on The Tradition at Lovers Lane, a high-end rental senior living community next door to Central Market, seems to have begun forever ago. Really, it was just a year and a half ago, and many residents are now settled in. An emergency room is still under construction at Lovers Lane and Matilda.

The future site of Oasis Smokehouse: Photo by Keri Mitchell