{"id":5420,"date":"2026-09-30T09:12:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T14:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/2026\/09\/30\/flock-to-close-as-heaterz-plans-alton-riverfront-hub\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T09:12:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T14:12:17","slug":"flock-to-close-as-heaterz-plans-alton-riverfront-hub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/2026\/09\/30\/flock-to-close-as-heaterz-plans-alton-riverfront-hub\/","title":{"rendered":"Flock To Close As Heaterz Plans Alton Riverfront Hub"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> ALTON, IL \u2013 September 30, 2026 (StLouisRestaurantReview) Flock Food Truck Park &amp; Bar, a downtown Alton gathering place that has combined food trucks, drinks, entertainment and community events since 2022, will end operations at its Ridge Street location in December as an Alton-founded hot chicken company prepares to transform the property into a larger restaurant and entertainment destination. Flock plans to operate at 210 Ridge St. through Dec. 20, 2026, completing its fifth season before the property enters a transition period. The next operator will be Heaterz LLC, which has entered into a five-year lease with property owner Rex<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/stlouisrestaurantreview.com\/flock-heaterz-alton-riverfront-hub\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read Original Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ALTON, IL \u2013 September 30, 2026 (StLouisRestaurantReview) Flock Food Truck Park &amp; Bar, a downtown Alton gathering place that has combined food trucks, drinks, entertainment and community events since 2022, will end operations at its Ridge Street location in December&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5421,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5420"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5422,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5420\/revisions\/5422"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}