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About Will

Will Buss, a business reporter at the News-Democrat, has been covering business in the metro-east area since January 2003. He has been working as a reporter at daily newspapers in Illinois for the last six years. He writes the weekly Retail Roundup column that appears each Monday and the Business Beat column that is published every Friday in the News-Democrat.

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Column Archive

• Big Daddy's opens its fourth location — Edwardsville

  The fourth Big Daddy's bar and grill is open for business in Edwardsville.

• Scottrade to open new branch in metro-east

  Scottrade will open a branch office today at the Edwardsville Crossing shopping center.

• More new eateries come to Green Mount Commons

  A new Wendy's and Hardee's have joined the lineup of new retail at Green Mount Commons in Belleville.

• Harley-Davidson's new three-wheel bike arriving in metro-east

  Harley-Davidson's new three-wheel motorbike will arrive soon in the metro-east.

• Wyndham will build new hotel in metro-east

  Johnson Properties is developing a new hotel in Edwardsville.

• Bank keeps expanding in Belleville

  Branch banks with Edwardsville in its name keeps spreading into communities beyond its home base.

• Another Big Daddy's comes to the metro-east

  He won't say where, but Scott Schmelzel says the chain of Big Daddy's Bar & Restaurants he co-owns will soon open another one in Edwardsville.

• Belleville Surplus going out of business

  Belleville Surplus is going out of business after 44 years. The Army surplus store, at 825 W. Main St. in Belleville, will begin liquidating its wares today.

• Handlebar Grill will open soon in O'Fallon

  A new bar and grill will soon reoccupy the former Lion's Choice restaurant at 1600 W. Highway 50 in O'Fallon, in front of Wal-Mart. To be known as The Handlebar Grill, the new business will be a family eatery with a motorcycle theme. Lion's Choice closed earlier this year after 12 years at the O'Fallon site. ...

• Metro-east retailers lure customers with free gas

  These days, small businesses have more to worry about than ever before. The economy is down. Gas prices are up. So to get customers through the door, a few metro-east business owners are trying to help shoppers make the trip less costly by giving them free fuel.

• Edwardsville restaurant switches its identity

  Krieger's Bar and Grill in Edwardsville closed briefly last week and reopened as the Bull & Bear Grill and Bar.

• Bank of Edwardsville building in Belleville

  A building under construction on the northeast corner of Illinois 177 and Green Mount Road will be home to the second The Bank of Edwardsville in Belleville.