As someone with a bit of inside knowledge on the project, hopefully I can clear a few things up. Everyone involved wants a restaurant in the ground floor space, but the continuing pandemic has the restaurant industry understandably hesitant to build out and open a new space right now. There is...

The office space on the ground floor is definitely a stopgap. It looks like they only applied for a temporary change of use, which means it will revert back to restaurant space in the future. My understanding is that Concorde Group wasn't able to take over the space amidst the pandemic-induced...