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The new Olive Garden, which officially opened last week, is the third major draw to open in The Canyon in Oak Cliff, a mixed-use development that also has a new Buffalo Wild Wings and the Residence Inn by Marriott Dallas at The Canyon, a 103-room extended stay hotel that opened in April.
"We convinced the restaurant chains that there's a market here," he said. "It wasn't easy because there was nothing else there to convince the Buffalo Wild Wings and Olive Garden to take the risk and build a store here and [to feel] it would succeed. We knew it, I knew it from the market.