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Another project on the street u/c:

From the Sentinel

Chateau Mississippi
3930 N Mississippi Ave.
10,500 sq. ft. retail

Having cleared the city permitting process, Edgewater, LLC has started digging on a two-story renovated retail space on North Mississippi Avenue and North Failing Street.

The Chateau Mississippi will be built on the bones of an existing warehouse, which Edgewater President Brian Dreisse had been using as storage for his home furnishings and accessories business. The construction will use the building’s existing east and north wall, half of the south wall, interior beams and posts, and the roof structure — but the roof itself, which leaks, will be replaced.

The most significant structural change is to the west façade, which will move 25 feet closer to Mississippi Avenue. A 2,100-square-foot permeable-stone-paved plaza will fill the remaining space between the front of the building and the sidewalk.

“We wanted to make it very much a people place,” Dreisse said. He said he pushed for the plaza, which will boast antique lampposts and a circular stone bench, even though the city likes buildings as close to the sidewalk as possible.

The building’s façade will be stone or brick at the bottom, with a stucco finish above that. Glass-paned garage doors topped by wrought-iron balconies will face Mississippi Avenue. Inside, a mezzanine level on the western side will cover about a third of the area, with the rest of the space open all the way to the roof.
“We’ve built the building to be able to handle all kinds of tenants, anywhere from a small retail store up to a larger restaurant,” Dreisse said. No tenants are committed yet, but there’s room for up to five, depending on how much space each needs.

Dreisse also owns two adjacent warehouses, which he will continue to use as storage for now. He said he might consider renovating those if this project, which he hopes to complete by September, leases successfully and there’s demand for more space. “But it
also depends on what is happening with my business,” he added.