Irvine, California-based Habit Burger & Grill may soon enter the Spokane market, a predevelopment conference application on file with the city shows.

As proposed, the new burger restaurant will be located on the West Plains, at 9558 W. U.S. 2, across the highway from the former Triumph Composite Systems Inc. building, at 1514 S. Flint. 

A Popeye's Louisiana Chicken restaurant previously had been planned at the same site, but those plans were withdrawn in 2023, city records show.

Kathy Kwon, a spokesperson for Habit Burger, says in an email that the restaurant will open in the second half of 2025, but declines to provide additional details.

This isn’t the first attempt to bring Habit Burger to Spokane.

As previously reported by the Journal, a Habit Burger location was being planned in 2022 at 6335 N. Division.

Before that, in 2018, as reported by the Spokesman-Review, Habit Burger had submitted a building permit application to build a restaurant at 6710 N. Division. Those plans were scrapped the following year, and a Maverik gas station was built at that site instead.

The West Plains Habit Burger proposal calls for construction of a new 2,300-square-foot restaurant with a drive-thru service window and a 500-square-foot outdoor patio area.

The roughly 1-acre site of the proposed fast-food restaurant is owned by Deer Heights LLC, Spokane County tax records show.

The project’s estimated construction cost is $900,000, according to the new application, which was submitted by Costa Mesa, California-based civil engineering company Commercial Development Resources.

Founded in 1969 in Santa Barbara, California, Habit Burger serves a variety of chargrilled cheeseburgers and chicken sandwiches. It also features crispy chicken bits and salads.

The fast-food franchise has over 380 locations across 14 states and internationally, according to the Habit Burger website. It currently has 14 locations in Washington state, with the nearest located in Richland.