La Mirada-If current plans continue, the city will have another dining option, The Habit Burger Grill.

City Planner Gabriel Bautista told the La Mirada Blog that The Habit has submitted plans for tenant improvements at the old Starbucks facility located at the southwest corner of La Mirada Boulevard and Imperial Highway.

The plans call for The Habit to convert the store and also take over part of the current wireless retail outlet adjacent to the unit.

With the amount of work to be done, including the installation of a full kitchen, no time frame can be set at this time for the possible opening of the restaurant said Bautista.

With headquarters in Irvine, The Habit currently operates 147 fast-casual stores, according to its website. It was founded in 1969 by two brothers in Santa Barbara.

We are hopeful, if plans continue to move forward, that the opening of the new restaurant would be before the end of the year.

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Let’s hope The Habit doesn’t take as long as McDonald’s.

Across the street, as far as we can tell, McDonald’s still plans to lease and build where the iconic Carriage still stands at The Crossroads Center at Imperial Highway and Telegraph Road.

The project continues to move forward, even though now it’s been over two years since Rich Development (property owners) and McDonald’s announced the agreement.

Residents stormed city hall to save The Carriage, a famous La Mirada eatery, in March of 2014. It was then shuttered by a major kitchen fire in December of 2014.

The plan for the new Mickey D’s has already gone through the city planning process for approval, including two public hearings last year. Yet ,there has been little movement, even though McDonald’s presented tenant plans in February of last year.

Bautista told us McDonald’s, as far as he knows, still has intention to build however they have yet to pull a demolition permit for The Carriage.