It used to be a walk-up window for Ice cream, times have changed now, a walk-up window at the former Friendly's restaurant at 221 State Road will reopen as a drive-up window for cannabis products.
Sitting on the desk of the Lee Planning Board is a proposal to develop the former Friendly’s on Housatonic street into a stand-alone Starbucks according to an article in The Berkshire Eagle. The Planning Board was presented a proposal by the Charles River Realty Group earlier this week to renovate the former Friendly’s that shut down operation last October...
FIC Restaurants, the parent company that runs Friendly’s restaurants, is filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, but that doesn’t mean the iconic local chain of eateries is going away.
Recently closed locations include a couple close by in Bennington, Vt. and East Greenbush, N.Y. Other locations were in Seekonk; Springfield (Sumner Avenue); Rutland, Vt. And Dover, N.H.