Real Estate & Construction  April 23, 2021

120-year-old Main Street building in Louisville could get new life

LOUISVILLE — A vacant, roughly 120-year-old building on Louisville’s Main Street could be revived as a bar and restaurant after Louisville city leaders this week blessed a development plan and pledged historic-preservation funds to the project. 

The property at 809 Main St. was built in about 1900 and served as a series of eateries for the next century. Most recently, the Waterloo restaurant called the space home, but it relocated in 2017. 

Now it’s owned by Tebo Properties Inc., which has its sights set on renovating and revitalizing the space. 

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The plan is to attempt to maintain the original front of the 2,145-square-foot building while demolishing and rebuilding the back to create a 3,705-square-foot restaurant with a second-floor, outdoor dining deck. 

“This building is a treasure, but it’s a treasure that needs some work to make it shine,” Louisville Councilman Chris Leh said during a hearing on the project this week. 

That kind of work doesn’t come cheap, and “historic preservation requires a lot of additional care, especially during demolition,” said Jeremy DeBacker, a project representative with PG Arnold Construction Inc.

The restoration project is expected to cost more than $734,000. City leaders approved a grant package worth $492,083 to help defray those costs. 

“This is a fantastic project,” Councilman Caled Dickinson said. “[The building] has been vacant since 2017 and that’s been really painful for our community. It’s a huge hole in our Main Street.”

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LOUISVILLE — A vacant, roughly 120-year-old building on Louisville’s Main Street could be revived as a bar and restaurant after Louisville city leaders this week blessed a development plan and pledged historic-preservation funds to the project. 

The property at 809 Main St. was built in about 1900 and served as a series of eateries for the next century. Most recently, the Waterloo restaurant called the space home, but it relocated in 2017. 

Now it’s owned by Tebo Properties Inc., which has its sights set on renovating and revitalizing the space. 

The plan is to attempt to maintain the original front of the 2,145-square-foot…

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