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Just following opening a new vintage ice product parlor in a Crown Stage strip mall, Dairy Belle will soon open up its sixth locale in Dyer.

The 71-calendar year-old Location institution, which has been serving scoops due to the fact it started out in Hammond in 1950, is opening following to Pop’s on U.S. 30 in Dyer, about three miles west of its present spot on U.S. 30 in Schererville.

The Colao family, operator of Dairy Belle, is good friends with Pop’s owners, which led them to open up coming to Pop’s Italian beef eating places in Crown Issue and now Dyer, Natalie Colao explained.

The new ice cream parlor in Dyer will be all over 1,800-square-feet with indoor seating, an out of doors patio and a generate-via. It will be the first Dairy Belle to occupy a recently built place, and it will be open calendar year-round.

“They are prepared to split floor,” Colao mentioned. “Assuming every little thing goes as projected, it should really be open mid-summer.”

The objective is to have the ice product shop open by mid-June, in the midst of the busy time.

Dairy Belle will provide common favorites like delicate provide ice product, Dole Whip pineapple, sundaes, malts, flurries, shakes and create-your-own banana splits. 

“It will be the exact menu as the other site,” Natalie Colao said. “We likely would not have very hot dogs simply because it can be ideal upcoming to Pop’s. They have a shake equipment, so we are going to inquire them to acquire out the shake equipment and we will not likely provide sizzling canine.”

Both of those companies could benefit from getting so shut to each individual other, Colao said. Men and women could seize a dinner of Italian sausage, gyros or Reuben sandwiches at Pop’s and then swing by Dairy Belle for dessert.

“We have lines down the road on U.S. 30,” she stated. “They do effectively at that Dyer location and get lines down the avenue on U.S. 30. We are not absolutely sure precisely what to assume. They may possibly require to put in a cease light-weight.”

The new Dyer locale really should attract from a broad region, together with south suburban Illinois and Munster.

“We have gotten queries from customers about no matter whether it will get away from our Schererville area,” she said. “But our Schererville spot draws from Schererville, Merrillville and Hobart. This must bring in a lot more people from Dyer and St. John.”