Renovation to Feature Restaurant Addition

Proposed Farmer's _
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2 - ec? Apre-Civil War building next to Kerry- 1985 to revamp the building and add ex- Market.
92 _ 'O town and the Farmers Market in Ann Ar- tra stories, but sto ed the work halfwa The restaurant _lanned for the bottom
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is as bor will finally get an overhaul, with a through because of financial problems. floor of the new buildmg will be below
§ O _ new restaurant, landscaped courtyard The newest plans include renovation of sidewalk level, leading to a curved and
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LL 9 and a new addition. the building s existing 11,000 square feet, andscaped courtyard.
§ i ‘é'm:§|;""°" Developer Michael Vlasic won approv- plus construction of a 19,000-square-foot Neighbor Peter Pollack wrote a letter
Z al Tuesday night from the City Council to addition. The current building is three to the city urging approval of the plan,
renovate and add onto the 140-year-old stories, and the new addition will be four which he said will turn a “derelict”
Catherine Street White Swan Laundry building, 201 E. stories, but only seven feet taller than bulldmg into a quality project. Christine
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Previous owners had begun work in shape that looks out onto the Farmers See RENOVATION, A4
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Crockett, who lives in the area,
wrote to the eity urging approval
and praising Vlasic’s renovation of
a dilapidated house in the Old
Fourth Ward Historic District.
“Some of our historic buildings are
grand and showy, and others, such
as the White Swan, are more sim-
ple and reflect the working class
environment which bordered the.
Main Street area in the last cen-
tury,” wrote Crockett.
She and other neighbors and
business owners urged the city’s
zoning board of appeals last month
not to hold the project up for lack of
parking. They said there is plenty
of parking in the city’s new Ann-
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Approval of the site plan=for the
new project was unanimous Tues-
day night. _