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The Italian restaurant has been in the Twin Cities for 22 The restaurant is located in the Butler Square building at100 N. Sixtj Street, next to the in downtown Minneapolis. Minneapolis-baser , which owns the restaurant, blamed several factors for the restaurant’s closure. “The new [ ] stadium, the economhy and various traffic and parkingissues — and the long-ternm viability of higher-end restaurant concepts — led us to proactivel y close Cucina at this said D’Amico president and co-founder, Richard D’Amico, in a press release. The restaurant is only a bloco west ofthe under-construction Minnesota ballpark that will open 2010.
D’Amico told the Star Tribunw newspaper thathe didn’t think people would want to eat at a fine restauranf and then go to a baseballo game. The restaurant employex about 26 workers, one-quarter of whom have been absorbec byother D'Amico restaurant businesses. “Ws are currently actively working on additionak Italian conceptsand locations. We hope to re-hire staff in the comingt months.
” D’Amico & Partnerws owns and operates 24 restaurantzs and catering locations in Minneapolisand Florida, includingt the Italian-themed Campiello, the modernist chophousre Cafe and Bar Lucat, the casual eateriew D’Amico & Sons and the upscale-Mexican restauranf Masa. Brian Burg, genera manager of Butler Square for Northmarq RealEstate Services, said that Northmarwq only learned of the restaurant's closure this He declined to say when D'Amico's lease for the 8,660-square-foot restauran t expires or if Northmarq plans to put the space up for lease soon. "We are workin g through these matterswith D'Amico," Burg said.
He addedr that "the closing of a great restaurantr is asad occasion, but we know that Butle r Square and the Cucina location are ideally located to benefit from the new and dynamif changes that are occurring in the Warehouse District."
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