Windows and doors are boarded up at Hard Rock Cafe on November 12, 2020. “Folks are really looking forward to this summer.” “We’re seeing more energy in the area,” Moser said. But people are returning in ever-larger numbers as vaccination rates rise. Moser said downtown activity slowed significantly during the pandemic. “We’re really excited to see the boards come off the windows and work happening in that space.” “The partnership is thrilled to see local businesses come in to activate this space that’s in the heart of our downtown,” Moser said.

and a new restaurant moving in, said Amanda Moser, executive director of the Anchorage Downtown Partnership. The rock-themed chain restaurant stayed shuttered as the COVID-19 pandemic dragged on, closing permanently in January.īusiness owners in the area are glad to see the plywood removed from the building at 415 E St. “It will be a showplace in this town.”īurnett said the Hard Rock Cafe boarded up its windows last spring during the nationwide protests over the death of George Floyd, the 46-year-old Black man killed by police in Minneapolis in May.

“It’s going to be beautiful,” Burnett said.

The new restaurant should open by early summer, featuring the Alaska-themed menu and decor also found at the Bear Paw Bar and Grill, which opened in Midtown when the pandemic began one year ago, said Bruce Burnett, owner of the Bear Paws. The downtown Hard Rock Cafe Anchorage, a boarded-up eyesore during the COVID-19 pandemic, is being replaced with the city’s second Bear Paw restaurant. Bruce Burnett plans to open his second Bear Paw Restaurant at Fourth Avenue and E Street by early summer after a renovation of his building that once housed the Hard Rock Cafe is complete.

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