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Mike Armstrong hopes to take advantage of the planned revitalization of Teague Park when he relocates and expands his Longview business, All-Service Window and Door, to American Legion Boulevard.

The business has been on Marshall Avenue, west of Lake Lamond Road, for 31 years, he said.

All-Service sells a variety of residential and commercial windows, doors and skylights, along with moldings, columns and stair parts. He said the business is known for its stair building skills.

"We don't have enough room," Armstrong said of his Marshall Avenue location. "I've got warehouse space rented across the street to try to help out. My guys are playing Frogger going back and forth across Marshall Avenue."

Parking is difficult, too, and often requires customers to move their vehicles when a delivery truck arrives.

Armstrong said Jim Dunaway started the business in 1990. Armstrong and his wife are native Texans who had been living in Colorado for about 20 years. After they moved back, Armstrong was looking for an opportunity to buy a聽 business. Armstrong bought the business about 4 1/2 years ago, and Dunaway continues working in sales there.

Armstrong said he plans to build a 4,000-square-foot office and showroom that feature immersive environments showing customers how products look in specific settings.

"In the warehouse, I'm going to have 10,000 square feet," Armstrong said. It will include bay doors and a driveway that will allow trucks to circle around the building. The whole project will represent a $1.35 million investment.

His new location will be across the street from the former American Legion Building. Armstrong is a veteran and a member of the American Legion. That organization has relocated and sold the building to the city of Longview, which plans to use the building for offices for the Parks and Recreation Department. The city of Longview also plans to make a number of improvements to the park, including a new entryway that will make the park more visible from Marshall Avenue.聽

Armstrong's project is still working its way through the city's permitting process, but he has cleared brush off the property.

"It should look really, really nice, the whole area," he said. "I really want to take advantage of the beautification that's going to take place in that area."

Construction starts on 259 project

A family that successfully led an election to allow alcohol sales in Gregg County Pct. 1 has started construction on a new building that will house a variety of businesses next door to their Lil Tommy性视界传媒檚 Gas & Go convenience store at 4532 U.S. 259 N.聽

Co-owner Tom Holyfield said plans for the building have changed some, with pickleball courts removed from the project. Cargo, a restaurant and entertainment center at Loop 281 and U.S. 259, will have pickleball courts, and Holyfield said they didn't want to duplicate what Cargo is doing.

The 15,500-square-foot commercial center, at Henderson Street and U.S. 259, is under construction, Holyfield said. The building will house a liquor store that also will sell gifts. It also will house Holyfield's My Guild Mortgage and have another office space for lease. That will leave 7,500 square feet for a future steakhouse Holyfield is planning to open.

"This is something I've been planning for almost four or five years," Holyfield said, adding there are no upscale steakhouses in Longview.聽

"We couldn't build that until we got beer, wine and liquor to pass," he said of the election.

The liquor store should be ready for business in about six to eight months, he said.

The steakhouse could take two years to open.