The hot dog cart is coming back to Westborn Mall.

We wrote about the dog stand being asked to move back in April but now the Westborn Mall owner and tenants have found a way to bring the cart back.

In a press release issued by Westborn Mall, the owner reports that Anna Ford, owner of the hot dog cart, and the owner of the Red Olive restaurant have worked out a way for both to operate in the mall.

Westborn Mall owner Tom Petzold took action to bring the cart back after customer complaints.

“This has really opened my eyes. I never intended to break the good will we have been striving for many decades to build in this community,” said Petzold, whose family has managed Westborn Mall for more than 40 years. Realizing that his decision was affecting shoppers and tenants including Red Olive, the new restaurant tenant unfairly taking the most criticism, Petzold said he knew he had to act.

Petzold called Pete Goulas, owner of Red Olive with 10 restaurants in the Detroit metro area, to talk about a possible solution. Both their companies had made substantial investments to bring the family restaurant to Dearborn.

To satisfy the shopping center’s customers who missed Ford’s hot dog cart, Petzold then called Ford with his idea. He knew her to be an astute business woman from their temporary rent free agreement set up two years earlier when the hot dog cart first came to the shopping center’s parking lot, the statement indicated.

“I asked Anna if she’d be willing to bring the hot dog cart back to the parking lot and pay a nominal rent that Westborn Mall would donate to local charities that she designated,” said Petzold.

Ford, a lifelong resident of Dearborn, readily agreed and designated both the Dearborn Historical Museum and the Dearborn Animal Shelter.

So if you stop by the mall today, the dog cart is open for business.