At one point, we weren't sure if Uncle Julio's was even going to open in Lubbock. Now, we have a date of the grand opening!
Uncle Julio's, located at the South Plains Mall off Slide Road and Loop 289, has been under construction for three years. They originally broke ground in 2019 with the expectation of opening in January 2020. There was actually some talk that they could open by Christmas 2019, but that didn't happen.
Then, 2020 hit.
Construction continued at Uncle Julio's until the coronavirus pandemic shut down just about everything. In June 2020, the building was just sitting there, but previous reports show that the South Plains Mall believed that construction would restart at some point, they just didn't know when.