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Old Charlie’s site to house return of Domino’s Pizza
Councilor Stacie Langdon delivered some good news at the June Greencastle City Council meeting.
“I have a brief, exciting announcement,” Langdon said Thursday night. “Charlie’s restaurant has been sold as of June 1. Domino’s Pizza is coming to Greencastle.”
Or more accurately, coming back to Greencastle.
Langdon, who is community relations manager for Putnam County Comprehensive Services (PCCS) -- which had owned the Charlie’s business building -- said she has talked to the new owner and “he said, ‘Please make it public.’”
Langdon said she is not certain of the timetable on the conversion of the 9,000-square-foot Charlie’s site, which sits along the west side of Bloomington Street, just south of the entrance to Robe-Ann Park.
“How great is it that the building is no longer vacant,” Langdon noted, adding she believes the opening would almost certainly come by the time school reopens at DePauw University.
Councilman Adam Cohen perked up with that news.
“Now we’re not the only college town in the country without a Domino’s,” he smiled.
The announcement marks a return to the Greencastle for Domino’s Pizza, which previously had been in business locally for more than 20 years.
Charlie’s, named in honor of retired longtime PCCS Executive Director Chuck Schroeder, opened in March 2013 and was rebranded to Charlie’s Beefcake Burgers in December of that year..
It served as a place of employment for developmentally disabled PCCS clients as well as a training center for other food service jobs.
The restaurant closed on Nov. 11, 2018, while along the way winning a 2013 Merit Shop Awards Gala honor for Commercial Building of the Year for businesses costing less than $3 million for design and construction.
Coincidentally, during Domino’s first Greencastle go-around that began in the late 1980s, its freestanding building -- since razed -- at the southwest corner of Vine and Poplar streets, won an Indiana Main Street award for new business construction.
The old Domino’s site at 200 S. Vine St., currently a parking lot, delivered its last pizza at the end of 2010, beginning a brief run as Shonky’s Pizza at the start of 2011.
Founded in 1960 in Ypsilanti, Mich., Domino’s now has more than 17,000 locations.