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Over the last few years, Los Angeles operators have opened new locations in adjacent getaway cities like Santa Barbara (Ospi Montecito, Marisella, and the Window) and Palm Springs (Bar Issi debuted in June). Big Bear is the latest to experience this type of expansion: The De La Nonna team, who introduced their casual restaurant to the Arts District in 2021, opened a Big Bear outpost on June 4 that overlooks Big Bear Lake from inside the recently reimagined Hotel Marina Riviera.

De La Nonna Big Bear resides just yards away from the water and has massive floor-to-ceiling windows that face north. A handful of area operators have a similar vantage point (like the Pines Lakefront and Santana Mavericks Bar), but De La Nonna’s expansive display comes alongside one of Los Angeles’s most popular menus. Partners Jose L. Cordon, Lee Zaremba, and chef Patrick Costa brought the hits (focaccia sandwiches, whipped eggplant dip, salads, and thick, rectangular Sicilian-style pizzas) along with new additions like the tinned fish with butter crackers, a chopped ocean smoked trout dip, and rotating soft serve flavors finished with Maldon salt and olive oil. No crudos for now, though Costa says they’ll try to keep a seasonal menu.

De La Nonna’s wine list showcases biodynamic and organic smaller producers, while the staff prepare cocktails for summer or ski season, such as a frozen Aperol spritz and espresso martini. They’ve got an orange bitter soda with zero-proof sparkling wine and Skyduster Italian Pils on draft.

Boutique hotelier Casetta Hotels approached the De La Nonna trio about expanding in Big Bear while partnering with them on their next restaurant project inside Silver Lake’s forthcoming Hotel Lucile. Big Bear’s Hotel Marina was originally built in 1968 with a new design by Electric Bowery, who kept the mid-century bones but took a modern sensibility with a cluster of custom banquette tables, high top chairs overlooking the lake, and Adirondack chairs surrounding two fire pits. In all, the restaurant seats approximately 120 diners.

“We saw the vision,” says Costa. “We walked around the town, saw the beautiful settings, surroundings, and great community. We thought we could bring nothing new to that area, but something great and approachable for the Big Bear community.”

De La Nonna Big Bear is open seven days a week from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. and until 10 p.m. Friday and Saturday at 40770 Big Bear Boulevard, Big Bear Lake, CA, 92315.

Minerals explorer and developer Cyclone Metals has marked a substantial derisking milestone at its flagship Iron Bear project in Canada, with a study by global engineering group Hatch confirming that the iron-ore mine and concentrator complex can be fully powered by renewable energy.

The study also evaluated power solutions for the nearby town of Schefferville, Quebec.

“The study demonstrates that Iron Bear project benefits from a privileged access to complimentary renewable hydro and wind power, which drives lower than expected unit power costs and will also translate into a very low carbon emissions for our green steel iron-ore products," said said CEO and MD Paul Berend.

The Hatch-led analysis assessed three staged development scenarios for Iron Bear’s power needs.

The initial 120 MW requirement for a 10-million-tonne-a-year concentrator (Phase 1) would be met by a 60 MW hydro plant at Menihek and a 280 MW wind farm, supported by a 10 MWh battery energy storage system. This would require capital expenditure (capex) of C$806-million to C$2.22-billion.

Phase 2 would scale up to a 25-million-tonne-a-year operation requiring 250 MW at a capex of C$1.68-billion to C$6.7-billion, while Phase 3 would support 50-million tonnes a year of output with a 500 MW demand and a capex investment of C$3.2-billion to C$8.9-billion.

In the latter stages, the additional energy would be delivered through new high-voltage connections to the Churchill Falls hydroelectric facility, operated by Newfoundland and Labrador Hydro.

The Iron Bear project is central to Cyclone’s strategy to supply low-emissions iron-ore for green steel production, leveraging Canada's renewable energy resources. The completion of the power study helps advance feasibility work.

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After over five years of waiting, the Lidl location in Bear has a targeted opening date. Kind of.

Signage outside the German-owned budget grocery chain say it is “opening soon,'' but unlike other times consumers have heard that promise, this time "soon'' may not be too long of a wait.

Here’s what to know about the store’s opening.

Lidl in Bear to open in the coming months

Driving down Route 40, the completed but long-vacant Lidl has become more of a monument to groceries than a shopping destination.

New signs proclaim that the nearly 30,000-square-foot store is “opening soon” for at least the second time in the past three years. But this time it might be real.

A representative from Lidl confirmed that the chain plans on opening the Bear location this summer. Specific dates are announced by the company one month in advance, and so far, no other specifics have been disseminated from Lidl.

The Lidl has been a sore spot for the Bear community, as the planned grocery store has delayed its opening due to the COVID-19 pandemic, planning obstacles and, more recently, drainage issues on the land.

Plans were first submitted in 2018, with a projected July 2020 opening, which later was pushed to the end of 2021, then the fall of 2022.

“Like thousands of businesses, we have seen that COVID-19 has put pressure on the materials supply chain and that does impact our planning,” said Will Harwood, Lidl’s director of communications, in September 2021.

Construction was completed in 2022, but its grand opening continued to be delayed.

In 2022, New Castle County’s civil engineering team found that Lidl’s stormwater management facility was not up to standard, with the site showing pools of water and signs of erosion. This halted permitting activity for over a year.

In April 2024, it looked like progress was being made as the company submitted plans to the county to rectify its drainage issues. New Castle County's Land Use Department confirmed that the drainage issues were addressed.

Minor repairs to the site's stormwater pond are in progress, but that would not impact the store's opening date.

On the same lot, a 2,700-square-foot Taco Bell is planned by franchiser Summerwood Corp. The company also owns the Taco Bell at 379 Chestnut Hill Plaza Drive in Ogletown, which is slated for demolition and a rebuild.

Summerwood Corp. did not respond to requests for comment about the status of either Taco Bell location.

Molly McVety covers community and environmental issues around Delaware. Contact her at [email protected]. Follow her on Twitter @mollymcvety.

(This story was updated because an earlier version included inaccuracies in the cutlines.)