Mighty Taco is opening its first downtown location on Chippewa Street tomorrow, its 20th in Western New York. The new location at 52 W. Chippewa St. in the Calumet Building opens its doors at 10 AM.
The circa-1906 Calumet Building is in the final stages of a complete renovation. Law firm Kenney, Shelton, Liptak, & Nowak partnered with Frank Parisi and Angelo Natale to purchase and renovate the 24,000 sq.ft. building that was designed by Esenwein & Johnson. Architecture firm Carmina Wood Morris prepared the redevelopment plans for the property.
Kenney, Shelton, Liptak, & Nowak will be moving its offices to the building's second and third floors on July 27.
The first Mighty Taco opened at 1247 Hertel Avenue on August 31, 1973 with four original owners: Dan Scepkowski, Andy Gerovac, Ken Koczur, and Bruce Robertson.
About time. It took 39 years to get a location downtown? As of now, the only one even in the city is way up Delaware in North Buffalo. Late night fast food options near me are Jim's and McD's on Niagara. I'd brave the idiots who hang out on Chippewa just to get a steak fajita at 1 am. They better stay open late.
Wow... didn't know patrons of Chip are idiots. Good thing to know!
Really? Have you been there on a Friday or Saturday at 2am? I'm not talking the dinner crowd at Bacchus. I'm talking about the people too cool to go into the bars so they congregate on the sidewalks and street looking for, and causing, trouble.
There used to be more Mighty Tacos in the city years ago. I remember locations on Elmwood Avenue near Buff State, and Bailey Avenue in Kensington.
Original locations were on Hertel Ave and Seneca St, that was in about 1978. I worked at the Elk Market Terminal at that time and the owners rented space from us. They were nice guys, very pro city, too bad they forget who made their success possible. The location you mentioned near Elmwood was on Forest Ave, later moved to Grant-Amherst.
They also have a city location inside the Noco gas station at 1039 McKinley Parkway http://www.mightytaco.com/mckinley.html
There's one in South Buffalo, but it is in a gas station...