GrandView and the Bar Louie move: the mall's loss, the corridor's gain

2019–PRESENT · 7320 ASPECT DRIVE

GrandView, across Gumwood from Toscana Park, is the corridor's apartment-anchored node, and its developer is named in the trade record: Bradley Company's market report for the first quarter of 2020 states it in a sentence — "The Grandview project by Great Lakes Capital will have space available for up to nine tenants." The master plan the firm's leasing record gives is sixty acres, of which phases I and II cover twenty-two: 375 or more luxury apartments and 36,000 square feet of retail, dining, and office at 7320 Aspect Drive. Phase II — 178 apartments over 25,000 square feet of ground-level retail — was under construction in May 2019 with an anticipated opening of January 2020 (Bradley Company), and a third phase of hotel, townhouses, and further apartments stood in development. The residential first phase, GrandView Flats and Townhomes (210 Perspective Drive), was in place ahead of it; its opening year is not in the record reached and is registered in the gaps roll.

The node's anchor story is a relocation with a full course. Bar Louie, the gastropub chain's local franchise — owners Frank Sweeney, Scott Muench, and brothers Andy and Mike Knapick — opened at University Park Mall in 2008 and traded there twelve years. In 2018 the owners announced a move to GrandView; the plan was to open in the fall of 2019, and construction delays pushed it back. In January 2020 the Bar Louie corporation filed for Chapter 11 and closed corporate-owned stores across the Midwest; in March 2020 the mall restaurant closed under the pandemic stay-at-home order, and the franchise owners chose not to reopen it — the new building was the future, and Bradley's market report said so that spring. The new Bar Louie opened August 10, 2020, as the anchor of GrandView's second phase (a ribbon cutting followed August 17, by the South Bend Regional Chamber's account) — three stories, restaurant and bar below, event space above, rooftop lounge on top. The record gives its size two ways, and both print: the Tribune's account calls it a three-story, 7,000-square-foot building; the Chamber's calls the new location 16,000 square feet, more than double the mall store. The record likewise addresses it two ways — 7320 Gumwood Road in the Tribune's account, 7320 Aspect Drive in the Chamber's and the directories' — one building, fronting one and addressed on the other, unmerged here as in the sources. It trades still: the restaurant's review record runs current through the fall of 2026. A departure for Mishawaka's mall, an arrival for Granger's corridor, and a survival through its own chain's bankruptcy — the Bar Louie course is the service layer's fullest single story on this ground.

Sources:

1. Bradley Company, North Central Indiana market report, 2019 Recap / 2020 Outlook (Q1 2020): "The Grandview project by Great Lakes Capital will have space available for up to nine tenants"; the Bar Louie passage (mall closing under the March stay-at-home order; will not reopen at the mall; three stories, rooftop bar).
2. Bradley Company industry blog, May 21, 2019: Phase II — 178 apartments, 25,000 sq ft retail, anticipated opening January 2020; phases I–II, 375+ apartments and 36,000 sq ft on 22 acres of the 60-acre master plan; Phase III forward.
3. South Bend Tribune, July 28, 2020 (syndicated): opening August 10 at "7320 Gumwood Road"; three-story, 7,000 sq ft; owners named; mall course 2008–March 2020; corporate Chapter 11, January 2020.
4. South Bend Regional Chamber, August 4, 2020: opening August 10; 16,000 sq ft; anchor of "GrandView South, the second phase"; 7320 Aspect Drive; ribbon cutting August 17.
5. OpenTable / directory record, 2025–2026: Bar Louie, 7320 Aspect Dr, Ste 100, Granger — trading, reviews answered through 2026.