The owners of the Ledo Restaurant pizzeria that opened Friday in downtown College Park have said they expect to be in place for the next 50 years. A new restaurant around the block didn’t last 50 days.

Ledo and Living Well Café are two of several businesses that have come and, in some cases, gone, over the summer.

Bars Santa Fe Cafe and The Mark shut their doors May 23; the Street Tacos restaurant opened downtown; Every Wing’s Good replaced Wing Zone in the Campus Village shopping center; and a Best Buy is scheduled to open Sept. 10 between Shoppers Food Warehouse and the Home Depot on Cherry Hill Road.

Some of the openings have hit a few snags. Ledo, for instance, was supposed to open in July, then early August and then Aug. 23 before it finally accepted patrons Friday. Managers attributed the delay to permit holdups.

Ledo had shut down its 55-year home in nearby Adelphi last month to move closer to the university, selecting a spot in the ground-floor retail space of the city’s Knox Road parking garage.

On its first day, Ledo’s menu was limited to its traditional square-cut pizza, and when the restaurant was packed to its full capacity of 187 on Saturday, it took up to an hour for patrons to receive their food, managers and patrons said.

Adjusting to the new space will likely stymie employees’ efficiency for at least the next couple of weeks, general manager Bruce Blum said, but they were able to prepare 300 pizzas for take-out alone Saturday.

Yesterday, Ledo didn’t open until 3 p.m., though its regular hours are supposed to be 11 a.m. to midnight daily.

The issues Ledo encountered didn’t compare to some other establishments’ woes.

Living Well Café owner Roman Seyoum opened her smoothie, coffee, sandwich, Ethiopian and Caribbean restaurant in July, changed the café’s name to Geltopia, flirted with adding more ethnic cuisine and never really reopened for business.

Seyoum said another restaurateur had taken over her lease at the former Simply Jerk Chicken location across from the College Park Shopping Center on Route 1. Seyoum said she is now looking into a larger space further south on Route 1, managed by a different landlord, but wouldn’t say what prompted her to move.

Street Tacos, which took over the former Chicken Rico space on Route 1, was serving up burritos, tacos and other Mexican food to a line that was stretching out the door yesterday.

“It’s good,” sophomore letters and sciences major Brent Ascher said. “I’ve come here four times in the past week.”

Owner Troy Thorpe said he hopes the restaurant will remain popular as a more authentic alternative to Chipotle but that he’ll likely need to change its hours, which are currently 7 a.m. to 10 p.m., because sales of breakfast burritos have been slow early in the morning.

Street Tacos and Ledo are also considering longer weekend hours if they sense a strong demand, managers said.

Other retail space in the College Park area that’s still available includes the Santa Fe site on Knox Road and the ground floors of newly built apartment buildings.

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