Construction Pace Picks Up at New Red Robin

After spending most of the summer as a pile of demolished steel and brick, the construction of a new Red Robin restaurant at the Great South Bay Shopping Center is picking up the pace.

"We are currently expecting the restaurant to open during the first half of 2014," said Brian Farley, a Red Robin spokesman in an email to Patch.

The new restaurant is expected to take over the new building being assembled at the former GNC location in West Babylon on Montauk Highway.

Patch previously reported on the incoming restaurant in December, but little has been seen or heard from the new restaurant's owners since that time. The plot of land the restaurant is being built on had its original buildings, including a strip of storefronts and a doctor's office, demolished earlier this past summer.

Storefronts located in the southwestern area of the Great South Bay Shopping Center relocated in the middle of the summer of 2012 to the eastern side.

Red Robin currently operates only one other location on Long Island in Carle Place. Farley told Patch the restaurants' owners are continuously looking for new sites for more Red Robins.