San Angelo Standard-Times du lieu suivant : San Angelo, Texas • 17

7t 7 7 7- v-J i It's Your Business 3B Business News 2-3Br 8B SAN ANGELO STANDARD-TIMES Sunday June IB I mart eras BUSINESSlNEWS folnaHilHg New store set to open on Monday By WILLIAM TAYLOR Staff Writer mart in San Angelo will say goodbye to its past today ana welcome its future as one store doses and another prepares to pen Today is the last day for the store on North Bryant and at9am Monday the new mart at Oak Grove Boulevard and Loop 306 will open for the first time Grand opening activities and instore specials actually will begin Thursday but the store will open Monday to give customers a "three-day sneak preview" and give management and employees a chance to make sure everything is running smoothly General Store Manager Mike Snapp said He added that both the North Bryant dosing and the Loop 308 opening are part of a five-year renewal plan to turn the company into a chain of stores similar to the Loop 308 store The plan calls for building some new stores enlarging others and refurbishing the rest The San Angelo store is one of the first new ones and it complies with annew Americans WlftDiuUlities Act requirements Store construction has been the same sinee the 1980s when concrete and asphalt was aU that wu needed to put in a retail location Snapp said But as times have changed stores need more landscaping wider aides and a broader sdecftm of name brand products we have to do more to make the customer fed at hesaid Whereas the aisles at the North Bryant store ranged from 316 to 4 feet wide those in the new mart range from about 5V6 to 11 feet Special features include a little Pirn Station a garden center and a six-bay auto center Most of the chain is moving away from providing auto centers but Ptotte tee KMART Page SB Texans contribute to lottery sales record West Texans Joined others around the state in purchasing enough lottery tickets during the first week of sales to set a record The record held by Florida with 95 Alton tickets sold InJannary IMS feUJunefwhen first week sales in Texas surpassed KJmQUoatl scratch of! tickets In Teas Grace Couaty first eek sales totaled according to figures released last week by the date comptroller's office And in a 45ounty area covered by the San Angelo Standard-Times sales totaled 44U leiDiee Area counties and their first weft sales totals follow: Andrews 1111000 Brewster $21000 Brave $215000 Burnet $121000 Cske $10000 Orieman $31000 Caeche $10000 Crane $11000 Cnekett $20000 and Caftersou $10000 Also Eetar $1065 million Edwards $10000 GIDesple $72000 Glasscock 0 Hudspeth $10000 Irion $20000 Jeff Davis $3J0 Kerr $215000 Kimble $21000 and Lampasas $72000 Also liana $72000 Loving 0 Mason $10000 MeCriloeh $41000 Menard $10000 Midland $807000 MOto $20000 Mitchell $41000 Nelan $20000 and Pecos $72000 Also Presidle $10000 Reagan $41000 Beeves $51000 Bnanels $81000 San Saba $20000 Schleicher $10000 Scarry $0000 Sterling $10000 Sudan $41000 and Terrell 0 Also Upton $20000 Uvalde $142000 Val Verde $184000 Winkler $82000 S-T photo by Cede White Checkout supervisor Beck) Shotwell helps new clerk Ruben Hernandez with cash register functions during preparations for the opening of the new mart store on Loop 306 North Angeloans will miss store on Sherwood Way agreed to acquire the lease on the North Bryant mart location But H-E-B officials have not yet stated their intentions for that property mart will turn over the building to H-E-B in the middle ofJuly North Bryant mart Store Manager Brad Evans added "I will be here another month working in the building to get aU the fixtures and stock out" he said Most of the store's apparel section had already been sent on to the new store before Saturday and the remaining un- aold merchandise after today win also be sent to other marts Evans said Kmart is transferring most of its North Bryant employees to the Loop 208 store why everything's going to the other side of town think our Wal-Mart (at 3020 Bryant Bhrd) is going to be And Ernestine Glass a former employee of the now closed Sherwood Way mart said "I always shqp here because I know where things are I wish they doee it because going to be so far across town to get some com2ortin the rumon that some kind of H-E-B stare might open at the site "My wife has to drive all the way across town to go to H-E-B Slaven said HE Butt Grocery Co as part of the same deal that gave it its currant location By WILLIAM TAYLOR Staff Writer North San Angelo residents are going to miss their Kmart customers said Saturday while picking through the bargains and speculating on what might replace ftdr department store The mart at 2020 Bryant Blvd opens for the last time at 11 am today The new mart on Loop 308 will open for the first time at 9 am Monday miss it" said John Fleming while looking for the fertiliser seen on special a day earlier store like this is Important to the poor side of Added Boy Slaven "I understand NjJ Ef AG A San Angelo braces for new barbecue ABU WOBKSHOP8 STILL HAVE ROOM-There is still room available in two Angela State University Small Bashers Development Center workshops scheduled Oils week organizers said "Sales Techniques to Improve Productivity and is scheduled from I to 9 pm Tuesday in Boom 105 of the Bassman Business-Computer Science Building on the ASU campus Patti Taylor ASU busiaesa instructor will lead the workshop Cost la $15 "Introduction to Lotas is scheduled from I am to noon Saturday in Boom 225 of the Bassman Business-Computer Science Building Parmer San Angetoan BJ Sandoval director of the SBDC in Corpus Christi will lead the session Cost is $20 For more information or to make reservations contact the ASU center at 9424008 DATABANK By WILLIAM TAYLOR Staff Writer Central Texas barbecue is moving northwest Zesch Restaurants with the cooperation of a Llano restaurateur plans to open Old Time Pit Bar-B-Q in San Angelo sometime this August The eatery will be patterned after Cooper's Old Time Pit Bar-B-Q in Llano and could be the first of a chain of restaurants as owner Terry Wootan seeks to work out franchise arrangements in other cities aTm talking with people in Austin San Antonio Dallas Fort Worth and even Kansu City Mo said Wootan whose restaurant was umed in a Texas Monthly article in March proclaiming Llano the "true Barbecue Capital of Central Texas and thus of the Construction already has begun on the San Angelo restaurant which win be located between Kentucky Fried Chicken and Billy's on South Bryant Boulevard And Gary Zesch who owns the Billy's and the San Angelo Pixza Huts also said excited about bringing in the Central Texas barbecue style That style is decades old Wootan said he explained how his old llano pit operation ruu an old-time pit We cook with direct beat We smoke We cook over the coals That's how the cowboys did it way And that's how the llano barbecue pit has done it for some 20 years "You walk up and place your order on the Ptoete tee BARBECUE Ptge SB SAN ANGELO HOUSING BOOM AMONG STATE LEADERS The improvement in San housing construction market last year was among the best in the state according to preliminary figures from the Real Estate Center at Texas AAM According to the figures published in the latest Fiscal Notes newsletter from the state comptroller's office San Angelo ranked fourth in the state among metropolitan areas based on its 1991 percentage increase in new housing permits The dty had 158 permits last year for nearly a 40 percent increase according to the report KHleen-Temple had the largest percent increase at nearly 80 percent followed by Austin and Tyler Statewide new permits for single family homes increased 8J percent to 37708 in 1891 By contrast the number of new permits nationwide dropped 82 percent to 685862 ST photo by Mike Howell Gary Zesch and Terry Wootan of Llano stand in front of the construction site for Zesch Restaurants' new Old Time Pit Bar-B-Q between Kentucky Fried Chicken and Puffin' Billy's on South Bryant Boulevard FJNAL'NOTE East Texas attorney to add insight to entrepreneurs STATE PROVIDES GUIDANCE FOR GAMBLERS While the Texas Lottery division of the state office works to convince residents to play the game another agency is offer ing assistance to those who stop The Texas Commission on Alcohol and Drug Abuse is providing services to problem and compulsive gamblers through a statewide 24-hour toll-free compulsive gambling line (888) 742-M43 "The funding tar this and other planned compulsive gambling services is made possible tar revenue gathered through the Texas Lottery and oft track hone race according to a printed statement from the commission The legislation that created the Texas Lottery appropriates $2 million per year from state General Revenue to the commission for compulsive gambling prevention intervention treatment and research programs "In one motion Texas has gone from no state program for this addiction to the largest amount of fun-ding ever earmarked by any state for this purpose" said Bob Dickson the executive director CtmpHsS Sy WHHni TiyUf 1W wirs rspwis By WHJJAM TAYLOR Staff Writer The resume of the new small business development specialist at Angelo State University tells of an East Thus attorney who has worked hi oil and gu and taught at the Junior college toveL What it say is that James Moore Jr also wu a prison guard ranch hand and construction worker But in an interview last weft Moore explained that even his more menial experience win help he advises businesses through ASITs Small Business Development Center "lean empathise with and relate to the people who are trying to get their busineu started because I was said Moore whose adornments Included Levi's dockers a multi-colored tie and a Mickey Mouse watch "I have anything and I wu wanting something to do for a brighter future and The watch wu a gift from Us students at Howard College where he wu chairman of the Legal Assisting Department He left there to come to ASU on June 1 to take a position created by the departure of RJ Sandoval who left Us position associate director of ASITs SBDC in mid-April to become director of the SBDC in Corpus Christi 10 to his duties with the SBDC Moore also will workas an instructor in ASUs busineu department "We are extremely pleased to be able to bring to Angelo State and the SBDC somebody with the experiences and skills of Jim said SBDC Director Harlan Bruha experiences in both small business and attorney give Um a unique insight into the day-to-day needs of the small busineu Moore had been at Howard College since Fheetetee SBDC Page IB ST photo by Mike Howell James Moore Jr the new Small Business Development Specialist at Angelo State University's Small Business Development Center works at one of the center's computers.