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A Panera Bread is in the works for Farmingville, possibly joining a growing cluster of national chains in the area, Greater Long Island learned on Monday.
Plans for the restaurant were submitted to the Town of Brookhaven and are scheduled for discussion at Wednesday’s Zoning Board meeting at 2 p.m. The proposed Panera comes in wake of the quiet closure of the chain’s Ronkonkoma location this fall.
The proposed Panera would rise on Horseblock Road just east of Route 83, immediately next to a proposed Bojangles, which would mark the chicken-and-biscuit chain’s first Long Island location. Both restaurants would share access points and operate side by side, according to architectural plans submitted to the town.
The Bojangles application was filed in August and is part of the chain’s ongoing expansion into New York. The company announced this summer that its first New York location will open this winter in East Flatbush, Brooklyn.
Both restaurants are proposed as part of Holmesview Commons Phase 2, which connects to a 20-acre Phase 1 retail center fronting Route 83. That project, completed roughly three years ago, remains vacant after plans for an Amazon Fresh store never materialized.
The Panera and Bojangles would be built on a lot adjacent to the Stop & Shop gas station at the northeast corner of Horseblock Road and Route 83, across from the longtime Taco Bell.
If approved, the Farmingville Panera Bread would join more than a dozen other locations currently operating across Suffolk County – and dozens across Long Island.
Top photo: The Panera Bread location in Islandia, just prior to its opening in 2024 (GLI file image).
