![]() ![]() WCBU The former A&P grocery store site along Washington and Fulton will become the new home of Travis Mohlenbrink's Saffron Social restaurant and bar come spring/summer 2022. And then you know, just be a part of this project." "It just made a lot of sense to continue to grow. "Seeing what OSF is how they've been committed to Peoria, the Peoria area, seeing how committed they've been to even coming downtown as a long term resident and an investment here," Janssen said. He said the headquarters location offers an opportunity to invest back into Peoria. Two public-facing restaurants also will call the historic 1905 former department store home.Ĭraig Janssen is the president of Central Illinois Doughboys that operates local Great Harvest Bread Company locations in the greater Peoria area. Mormann said federal and state historic tax credits make up around 40 percent of the overall project funding. In addition to the restoration of the iconic Chicago windows, the tax credits also call allow for elaborate pillars, moldings, flooring, and staircase restoration, among other things. ![]() ![]() WCBU This staircase is among the many historic features in the former Block & Kuhl building receiving a full makeover as part of OSF HealthCare's restoration of the building to its appearance circa 1950. "It would have been cost prohibitive for any type of construction without the tax credits into the space, and it wouldn't matter who went into it." It fundamentally couldn't be," Mormann said. "Without the historic tax credits, the building couldn't have been redone. Mormann said OSF HealthCare is restoring the exterior, and some interior features, to how they looked in the 1950s. The project is bound by strict Historic Rehabilitation Tax Credit criteria. Those functions are currently spread across seven different buildings, Mormann said. The building, which OSF HealthCare is describing as "eight floors and a basement," will serve as the health care ministry's administrative hub. "Naturally with COVID, it's changed an awful lot of how people work when people are local versus virtual," Mormann said. "There's a formal schedule that is aligned for us to meet for the end of the year we feel pretty confident about," he said.Ībout 500 OSF HealthCare administrative employees will work full time in the building, with another 175 "hoteling" back and forth. Mormann said he's sure the January timeline will stick, however. OSF HealthCare's CEO of Integrated Solutions, Jim Mormann, said the organization originally wanted to move in this past summer, but the project wasn't immune to the material and labor shortages seen across much of the construction industry due to the pandemic. WCBU A construction employee putting the finishing touches on an office cubicle area of the new OSF headquarters building at the corner of Adams and Fulton in downtown Peoria. ![]()
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