Ward 3 News

Restaurant Revitalization Fund

A couple of months after Lenny and Blanca Mark opened up their new restaurant in the same place that housed the well-known Club 21 Mexican restaurant for some seven decades, the wife and husband team felt they had a winner. In February 2020, their restaurant, El Chinito Gordo on North Oracle Road, grossed $90,000.

A month later their business fell through the floor. The Coronavirus had arrived.