Maria Empanada plans to open in a small building near East High School. The local Argentinian restaurant chain has leased the small building at 2730 E. Colfax Ave., according to company spokesman Victor Arango. Arango said he couldn’t provide a timeline for opening. “We are now going to wait on the permitting process which, as you know, takes a while nowadays and makes it tricky to fix dates for all other activity,” he said in an email. The building is just 512 square feet, according to property records.