Arnie's, an iconic Grand Rapids bakery and restaurant is getting ready to start construction on their new building after the devastating fire in 2007.
According to excerpts from MLive:
Plans call for beginning construction on the $500,000 project as early as April and completing it in the summer.
The company's former two-story headquarters on the site will be incorporated into the new restaurant. That old headquarters will be expanded with a 4,100 square-foot addition, creating a 7,600-square-foot restaurant and bakery.
The new Arnie's will be about the same size as the previous 150-seat restaurant, Erik Fahlen, the Fahlen's brother and the Arnie's Inc.‚ vice-president.
Rebuilding on the original 1.5 acre site is a reversal of plans announced last summer when the company made a deal with a pair of Chicago businessmen to redevelop the acreage with a mix of retail and offices. At that time, the family planned to add on to its bakery plant farther down Leonard, where its corporate offices are now located.
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