Beau Jo’s pizza parlor to open in former Johnny Carino’s

LONGMONT — The building that housed a Johnny Carino’s Italian Restaurant in Longmont has been acquired by Beau Jo’s, a chain of pizza restaurants based in Lakewood.

Owner Chip Bair expects the restaurant will be open by this summer.

Beau Jo’s Longmont LLC paid $2.6 million to real estate developer David Chaknova of Niwot for the 6,938-square-foot restaurant and the 1.5 acres it sits on in the Village at Burlington at 2033 Ken Pratt Blvd., according to public records.

Johnny Carino’s constructed the restaurant in 1999, and it has been empty since the restaurant closed in April 2014. After the restaurant closed, Chaknova…