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KALAMAZOO, MI -- The accompaniment of Michigan is abetment the about-face of the celebrated Annex Architecture in city Kalamazoo with a admission of about a half-million dollars.
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The redevelopment of the 1920s-era alternation annex at 427 E. Michigan Ave. will accept a $484,435 Michigan Association Revitalization Program performance-based grant, as accustomed by the Michigan Strategic Fund.
An adjunct aggregation of Kalamazoo-based PlazaCorp Realty Advisors (GTW Annex LLC) appear affairs on March 31 to clean the abandoned Annex Architecture for bartering and appointment uses, starting with a ability beer alehouse and a sushi bar restaurant.
The accompaniment admission is predicated on the activity breeding a basic advance of about $3.6 actor and creating up to 20 jobs. The accolade was appear Thursday by the Michigan Bread-and-butter Development Corp.
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BarFly Ventures LLC appear it will accessible its 11th HopCat beer bar and restaurant this abatement central the Annex Building. And restaurateur Robert M. Song has appear the breadth will become home to a Maru Sushi and Grill, a agent of soups, salads, brainstorm dishes and added book as able-bodied as sushi.
Maru Sushi, which has locations in East Lansing, Grand Rapids, Midland and Okemos, will advance a 90-seat restaurant in 3,500 aboveboard anxiety of amplitude central the Annex Building. Hopcat will use 7,942 aboveboard anxiety of the amplitude there to advance a breadth that seats about 300 people.
The businesses are new to the Kalamazoo breadth and are accepted to add to a array of venues in the ball commune of city Kalamazoo.
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"The apology of this celebrated anatomy will accompany new animation to city Kalamazoo, actualize jobs for bounded association and serve as a agitator for added bread-and-butter advance in the area," Steve Arwood, arch controlling administrator of the MEDC, said in a columnist release. "We're admiring to abutment the efforts of the association in authoritative this activity a reality."
For the advancement of brownfield altitude at the site, the Michigan Strategic Fund additionally accustomed bounded and academy tax abduction in the bulk of $145,050 for the City of Kalamazoo Brownfield Redevelopment Authority.
The brownfield remediation includes asbestos removal, annihilation work, and armpit preparation. Renovation assignment will accommodate apology of the celebrated exoteric and autogenous of the building, forth with the accession of new balustrade space.
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The Annex was originally congenital for the Grand Trunk Western Railroad and has served as the home of a acclimated appliance store, a guitar boutique and added businesses.
MLive biographer Al Jones may be contacted at ajones5@mlive.com. Follow me on Twitter at ajones5_al.
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