Bowling Green’s Scottsville Road may soon be getting another chain restaurant.

Panda Express, the California-based fast casual chain that serves American Chinese cuisine, is moving forward with plans to put a restaurant at 2500 Scottsville Road, previously the site of a Toot’s restaurant.

Panda Restaurant Group of Rosemead, Calif., has applied for a permit to build a 2,216-square-foot, $650,000 single-story Chinese restaurant with a drive-through on that property, according to records on file with the city.

Aileen Donovan, a staff member at the Los Angeles office of the Havas Formula public relations agency that handles media relations for Panda Express, confirmed Tuesday that the restaurant chain plans to open a location on Scottsville Road. She said plans call for it to be open in the spring.

“That timing is, of course, subject to change,” Donovan said in an email.

The Toot’s restaurant on the property has been closed since April 2017, and another application on file with the city indicates it will be demolished to make room for the new Panda Express.

The demolition permit application lists Dallas-based architectural and design firm idGroup as the applicant for a project that will include demolition of the existing 5,170-square-foot building and site paving.

That same company is listed as the applicant on the building permit application for the Panda Express.

Before the former Toot’s can be demolished, a liquidation auction will be at 10 a.m. Saturday to sell the restaurant equipment, furnishings, signs and collectibles.

Lloyd Ferguson of Bowling Green’s Vette City Real Estate & Auction Company said there will be “a lot of history” among the items to be auctioned. He said various sports memorabilia and collectibles will be for sale.

The Bowling Green Toot’s opened in the 1990s and was part of a small Tennessee-based chain that still has locations in Murfreesboro, Tenn., and Smyrna, Tenn. Warren County clerk’s records show the Toot’s property was owned by the Michael D. Thompson Trust. Ferguson said the sale to Panda Restaurant Group should be completed by the end of the month.

Panda Express, which has a location operated by the Aramark food service company in Western Kentucky University’s Garrett Conference Center food court, was started in 1983 by Andrew and Peggy Cherng. It now has more than 2,000 restaurants spread across 49 U.S. states.

The company’s website said Panda Express offers such items as orange chicken, grilled teriyaki chicken, broccoli beef and Shanghai Angus steak.

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