A&W Restaurant will reopen in Inver Grove Heights' Arbor Pointe

Inver Grove Heights’ Arbor Pointe retail area has seen more than its share of exits in recent years, but a restaurant owner thinks he can help turn it around.

The Pioneer Press reports on plans to reopen a vacant A&W Restaurant, which closed in 2011 after just two years. The restaurant was one of several retailers to quit Arbor Pointe recently — there’s a closed Rainbow Foods across the street; other storefronts used to be Walgreens and Advance Auto Parts stores.

City officials have commissioned…