JT Thomas closes Red Hot & Blue Southern Grill - Pittsburgh Business Times:

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The restaurant, which featuresd barbecue along with a variety ofSouthern cuisine, operate at the Waterfront in near Pittsburgh, for a little more than two year before Thomas’s Three Rivers Barbecue LLC filed for Chaptetr 11 bankruptcy protection from creditorxs in January. Thomas said the restaurant’ds last day of operation was Saturday. He said that he had only limitesd communications withthe , the Cleveland-basedx company that owns the Waterfront, and that the $22,00o monthly rent was too high. “That dog doesn’t’ hunt at the he said.
It was also difficulf to generate business during constructioj on the HomesteadGrays bridge, the main access point for the developmen t that suffered constricted traffidc for months. Thomas said he is in the early stages of figuring out hisnext plan. “I’m goint to go back to the huddle and callanothet play,” he said.