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1993 — present · the corridors at documented size
Day Road's succession in one address: The corridor era's tables mostly belong to Malls and Corridors as fabric; what the food record holds whole is the succession at 211 East Day Road. In 1993 the Tribune announced that a Honkers Restaurant would open there by mid-March — Jeffrey Nickerson, owner-operator of the Honkers at 3939 South Michigan Street in South Bend, had bought the building from Marv Moore; the building had been Braces Bar & Grill for about a year before, and Moore had also owned Spaghetti Works restaurants at the Day Road address and in downtown South Bend. One address thus carries three documented tables in sequence — a spaghetti house, a bar and grill, a family restaurant planted from across the river — and the Honkers house's course after its announced opening is not in the record reached; the gap stands in this section's note.
The Macri line on Grape Road: South Bend's Calabrian baking family crosses into this record on Grape Road. When University Center was trading by the autumn of 1993, the Tribune recorded a restaurant preparing to open there by the end of September, two doors from Macri's Deli at 6502 Grape Road — the deli is the Mishawaka outpost of the family whose bakery is South Bend's to tell, and the address itself later became a Best Buy, as Malls records. The family's Mishawaka table today is Villa Macri, in the Toscana Park cluster on Gumwood, at the leasing record's strength. The corridor's remaining documented tables are pointers by design: the mall's ten-restaurant food court of the 1995 renovation is Malls', and the chain houses of Grape Road stand in the present map at survey size. One younger house earns its line on its own copy: Puerto Vallarta, at 1551 East McKinley Avenue, "family-owned Mexican restaurant proudly serving Mishawaka since 2013" — printed at listing strength, as the record gives it.
Sources:
- South Bend Tribune (1993), as indexed — Honkers to open at 211 East Day Road by mid-March 1993; Jeffrey Nickerson of the South Bend Honkers at 3939 South Michigan Street; the purchase from Marv Moore; Braces Bar & Grill and Spaghetti Works in the address's past.
- South Bend Tribune (1993), via the Malls record — the restaurant preparing to open at University Center by the end of September 1993, two doors from Macri's Deli, 6502 Grape Road; the address's succession to Best Buy by 2003.
- Malls section of this history — Toscana Park on Gumwood: the Residences, Villa Macri and Tony Sacco's restaurants; University Park Mall's 1995 renovation and its ten-restaurant food court.
- Puerto Vallarta, house listing copy (2026) — family-owned, serving Mishawaka since 2013; 1551 East McKinley Avenue.