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NORTH EAST The owners behind the popular Chefs Kitchen restaurant are planning to open a second restaurant at the site of the former Paradise Grill in North East.

The restaurant, which will be called Snatchers Creekside Grill, will serve food similar to that of Chefs Kitchen, though an exact menu has not yet been decided. Snatchers will be managed by Lynn Bollinger, a 15-year veteran of the restaurant industry who currently serves as the front of house manager at Chefs Kitchen and is a part-owner of the business.

Bollinger told the Whig that Chefs Kitchen decided to open up a second restaurant after the owners of the property at 510 W. Main St. approached them. Eric Polansky, who owns the property as part of EJP LLC and also operates B&H Auto Parts, is a frequent Chefs Kitchen customer, she said.

Chefs Kitchen, which was opened in 2015 by Michael Fuggitti, serves classic American fare at its location at 2240 W. Pulaski Hwy. Bollinger has worked at Chefs Kitchen for two and a half years and she said the Snatchers kitchen will be run by someone from Chefs Kitchen.

But before Snatchers can open, the restaurant needs a liquor license and Bollinger took a step toward that when she appeared before the North East Board of Appeals Thursday night seeking a special exception for the purpose of obtaining a beer, wine and liquor license. The board approved the request, which Bollinger called wonderful news.

Weve been waiting for it, she said.

While Bollinger doesnt intend to do any remodeling before Snatchers opens, she said an opening date has not yet been determined pending approval of a liquor license from the county.

Though Bollingers request was unanimously granted by the North East Board of Appeals, it came with five conditions, which had largely already been hashed out during a two-hour session with the towns planning commission earlier this month.

The need for the conditions seemed to stem both from the restaurants location near a residential area and from the past history of complaints received when the Paradise Grill was located there, rather than from any concerns about the Snatchers management.

Its a new owner. I think the planning commission has done due diligence on this and I think at this point we need to give the new folks the benefit of the doubt, said Gabrielle Oldham, chair of the board of appeals during the meeting.

The first of the five conditions granted the restaurant extended hours from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. Sunday through Thursday and 8 a.m. to 11 p.m. Friday and Saturday with the stipulation that the closing hours represent the end of entry for new patrons but not the end of service. Bollinger told the board that she doesnt initially intend to serve breakfast at Snatchers because Chefs Kitchen does very well in that area but wanted to leave that option open for the future.

Secondly, music from Snatchers cannot be audible from any adjoining property past 7 p.m. Sunday through Thursday and past 9 p.m. Friday through Saturday. Third, the restaurant cannot use the words bar, pub, tavern or sports bar in its either its name or sign. While the restaurant was initially called Snatchers Creekside Bar and Grill, Bollinger dropped the bar part after learning bars are not allowed in town.

Fourth, if the planning office and the North East Police Department receive three valid complaints about the restaurant, Snatchers is required to reappear before the planning commission and board of appeals to reevaluate its permission for extended hours. Finally, Snatchers must appear before the commission and board annually to continue to review the operation of extended hours.

No one spoke against the special exception for Snatchers and quite a few people spoke in favor of having a new restaurant at the location, since Paradise Grill, which first opened in 2007, has now been closed for months.

Eric Polansky told the board he interviewed many applicants in order to find a tenant for the property and believes Bollinger will bring a lot of people to the neighborhood, noting hes eaten at Chefs Kitchen since it opened and always had a good experience. Acknowledging that Paradise Grill started to go down toward the end of its tenure, Polansky said he believes Snatchers will turn things around.

Being empty isnt going to help the community in any way, he told the board. As the rent comes in, Ill fix the place up and do anything I can.

Doreen Casimir, who lives in Victoria Park, a retirement community near the restaurant, said shes heard from many people in the community that are looking forward to having a restaurant re-open at that spot. And while she appreciates the boards conditions on the music from the restaurant, she actually wishes it could be a little louder.

I used to sit in my apartment and try to listen, she said to the laughs from the board.

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Phase I of Grandway West, an office park being developed at Grand Parkway and Franz Road.

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Industrial construction company inks big office lease in Katy

PCL Industrial Construction will double the size of its local office when it relocates to a new building in the Grandway West office park next year.

The company, which provides industrial services to the power, oil and gas, petrochemical, and mining industries, has leased 36,596 square feet 2322 West Grand Parkway in Katy. It will take the entire second floor of building 4 in the complex, which is planned for five buildings at the Grand Parkway and Franz Road. Completion is planned in January.

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Eugene Terry and David Bale of JLL represented the tenant. Parker Burkett of Transwestern represented the landlord, InSite Realty.

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"We needed a significantly larger space to accommodate current and future growth," John Moreno, regional president of PCL, said in an announcement.

"In planning for the future, we were in search of high quality office space that was close to our employee base. This new location will provide us the office space and the quality we desire, in a location that supports both our business and our team."

The company's offices at Ten Plaza West, 15915 Katy Freeway, total 18,144 square feet, according to JLL. It is a subsidiary of Denver-based PCL Construction Enterprises.

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In 1989, the historic Bank of Buffalo building and its domed roof were carefully taken apart, piece by piece, in a hopeful effort to preserve the granite facade and other decorative elements after the structure was badly damaged.

Located next to the Merchants Mutual Insurance building at the corner of Main and Seneca streets, the vacant bank facility had been badly damaged when demolition crews hired by the city tore down the taller Chamber of Commerce Building next door.

A prominent developer had planned to erect a new high-rise tower, using both properties. The proposed new building was supposed to incorporate the pieces from the Bank of Buffalo edifice, under an agreement between the developer and the city Preservation Board that allowed the bank building to be demolished.

But the new project never came to fruition after several years, and the site instead became a parking lot. Meanwhile, the preserved architectural features were moved to a warehouse, where they have mostly sat in storage until their time comes.

Now, 28 years later, the property at 234 Main has finally changed hands, with Allpro Parking LLC buying it for $1.25 million. It's going to remain a parking lot, under the ownership of Allpro, with no sign of any construction plans.

"Our desire is to continue operating it as a parking lot as it currently is," said Richard Serra, Allpro CEO.

The Bank of Buffalo building, built in 1895 and demolished in 1989. (Photo by Karl R. Josker)

The sale is drawing renewed attention from preservationists focusing onthe original "memorandum of understanding" and the plight of the squat historic building that stood in downtown Buffalo for nearly a century. The agreement will be on the agenda of the Preservation Board's next meeting June 29.

"People fantasize about bringing that building back, but we have not heard about anything concrete to do so in 30 years," said Jessie Fisher, executive director of Preservation Buffalo Niagara. "Wouldn't it be exciting for Buffalo if we did? What a great infill project."

Designed by Robert Williams Gibson, the Bank of Buffalo building was constructed in 1895, at a time when Buffalo was thriving. The Renaissance Revival building featured detailed stonework, carved reliefs, arched entrances and a dome atop an octagonal terra cotta base.

The bank itself was acquired in 1976 and eventually became part of Bank of New York in 1989. By then, it was already vacant, as was its neighbor, the Chamber building, which was acquired in 1981 by a development corporation tied to the city.

Officials spent several years considering options for redeveloping the much taller Chamber building, and received proposals for a "paperless" office building, a mixed-use building and a luxury apartment complex. But the deteriorating condition of the structure forced them to tear it down instead, and then solicit bids for new construction.

Despite efforts to protect both the Merchants Mutual and Bank of Buffalo buildings next door, the demolition damaged the bank's dome, bent parts of the steel frame and cracked the terra cotta skin.

[Buffalo'sother domed bank: M&T Center's Gold Dome Bank (gallery)]

Meanwhile,Frank L. Ciminelli's Ciminelli Development Co. predecessor to Paul Ciminelli's Ciminelli Real Estate Corp. had proposederecting a $20 million high-rise office tower on both the Chamber and bank sites. That meant demolishing the bank, which Ciminelli asserted was structurally unsound while preservationists insisted it was stable.

So after much hand-wringing and dueling studies, the developer reached an accord with the city and preservationists: salvage what they could for future use at that site. As pieces of the walls and the terra cotta around the glass dome were taken down, the pieces were meticulously identified and numbered for reassembly later as part of any new project to be built on that property.

Ciminelli retained ownership of the property, which became an 85-space parking lot. It's been managed for years by Allpro a separate company in which Paul Ciminelli is a part-owner and Allpro is now buying the parcel, for an undisclosed price. The deal should close by week's end, Serra said.

"If anything is built on the site, they have to incorporate the granite from the building," said Anne Duggan, spokeswoman for Ciminelli Real Estate. "It is stored at one of our warehouse locations, but I don't believe Allpro is going to build anything."

As for the facade pieces, which are included in the sale, they're still in storage, alongside construction equipment and materials, in a Ciminelli-owned facility near Broadway and Bailey Avenue. That's where they will stay, for now.

"We will be maintaining them as they have been throughout their existence," Serra said. "It will be our responsibility."

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The house at 314 Academy St. in Tahlequah sits on land that was once part of the Baptist Mission, which encompassed more than 100 acres of land and featured a farm and orchards.

Portions of the land became the Academy Addition when the Department of Interior approved the plat on March 4, 1904.

An article in the Nov. 10, 1985, Tahlequah Pictorial Press traced the 314 Academy St. plat via then-homeowners and sisters, Betty Greenhaw and Frankie Roemer. The American Baptist Home Mission Society of New York sold the plat to D. Frank and Walter J. Pack of Tahlequah. They had civil engineer Frank R. Lewis survey the Academy Addition into blocks and lots. Pack and Frank sold the land to Fannie P. James and Cora B. Clever, who then sold it to J.N. Clark, who, in 1912, sold it to T.O. Graham. A house was built at 314 Academy St. in 1907, and the lot and building were sold to J.C. and Walsie Greenhaw in 1947.

The Greenhaws had five children - Betty, Frankie, Bill, Dale, and Carl - and the home holds memories of them growing up and of numerous family celebrations, including annual birthday parties for Walsie on Christmas Eve. Roemer's wedding reception was held at the house. J.C. died in 1959, and the children grew and developed their own families and homes.

Walsie filled the house and found company and helpers by renting out rooms to college students. She also devoted areas of home to her activities, including newspapers and quilting supplies.

"We spent many a happy day here. We had good neighbors," said Roemer. "My mother lived here until 1980, when she was killed in a car accident."

Roemer said she and her siblings would travel from their homes in Tulsa to Tahlequah and open the house on weekends.

"All the folks would come in and visit," she said. "This was always open house."

The area where the laundry room and a daybed are currently situated used to be a sunroom.

"It used to be all windows," said Greenhaw.

Roemer's daughter, Carol Burgess, recalls the area as being longer.

"Grandma had an old washtub where the washer is. She had a big quilting frame in here," Burgess said of the sunroom. "There's a closet there now, but there was a little room about the size of a walk-in closet, and that's where she slept. That's where I would read in the summers. There was a little door to the porch and the breeze would come in."

The old closet was large enough for a twin bed.

"The Sisters" - as some in Tahlequah called Roemer and Greenhaw, according to Burgess - began remodeling the home in 1985. Many within the family assisted in updating the structure. Herman Roemer, Frankie's husband, was in the construction business, and he enjoyed working on old houses. Burgess' husband, Steve, modernized the kitchen using his cabinet-making and engineering skills.

"It was a group effort. That was a lot of work. Mainly Aunt Betty and my father did most of the work. Betty outworked all of us," said Burgess. "We took one weekend when it was 107 degrees and painted the outside. We found the colors during a trip to Fayetteville. We wanted it to look Victorian, even though it wasn't."

Burgess said that when they remodeled, they found there was no insulation; it was just old newspapers. The transformation rid the house of the pot-belly stove and the second-floor sleeping porch, which had been added by the Grahams during World War II.

The Greenhaw house, as it came to be known, was sold by the family in 1994. The current owner is Sandy Crosslin, who bought it from her sister about 14 years ago.

Crosslin had been renting out 314 Academy St. to families and college students, but in November 2016, she and Denna Porter began to transform the house again.

"It had gotten run-down and it needed to be redone," said Crosslin. "Denna had been wanting to work on a house. This location was perfect - two blocks from downtown. It needed some TLC, so we gave it some."

The house still had wall heaters, and Porter said there were gas lines everywhere. Those were removed and all of the central heating and air conditioning has been updated. Also new are the roof, the windows, the lighting, and bathroom fixtures. The carpet was removed from the downstairs rooms, and all the floors are the original wood.

"The floors were stripped, but some paint was left to show the colors; it was green in the hall and brown in the bedrooms. We took it back as much as we could save," said Porter.

The wood on the stairs was replaced with 100-year-old barn wood, but the stair railing is the original.

Also original is the over 100-year-old, 6-foot claw-foot bathtub. The mirror hanging in the bathroom used to hang in a bedroom when it was the Greenhaw house. Barbra Cook, a Greenhaw granddaughter, wanted it to hang in the house again.

A built-in china hutch was removed from the kitchen, which has all modern appliances and marble countertops.

Two of the old windows now hang with wreaths in the dining room, and three panels from one of the old doors have been turned into signs proclaiming "Bath," "Stay awhile," and "Academy House, 1907-1917."

Academy House is now a business. Crosslin and Porter are renting the home for special occasions, as well as to short- and long-term guests.

The house has three bedrooms with queen-size beds, and the old sun porch has a daybed. The two bathrooms have showers, and a washer and a dryer are in the utility room.

Many of the wood furniture was left by previous renters and has been redone by Crosslin and Porter. A coffee table was once a toy chest. A side table in the dining room used to be in Crosslin's father's veterinary office.

They have decorated in their own styles. One bedroom has a "cabin-at-the-lake" feel, while another is bright and airy.

Guests have access to pots, pans, dishes, sheets, towels and more. Wifi is also available. Books and board games are in the bedrooms.

"It is not a bed and breakfast. We don't provide any service, no meals," said Crosslin. "They let themselves in the house with the keyless entry."

Guests have been renting Academy House since June.

"We've got a lot of good vibes and feedback from everyone and people who have stayed here," said Porter.

An open house was held last Wednesday, and many from the Greenhaw family attended.

"It looked so awful for so many years, it was sad to come by. It needs a family again, and this is the next best thing," said Burgess. "Maybe this will help to revitalize this street, maybe inspire everybody."

Her brother John was impressed and is glad they kept the wood floors.

"They've really dome a beautiful job. It's very different," said Greenhaw.

The Academy House operators said they love the house, and everyone wants to move in.

"We want people to feel at home; it's their home while they're away," said Porter. "We have worked really hard for months."

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Historic Preservation Office names Citations of Merit honorees

The Oklahoma Historical Society's State Historic Preservation Office presented its 2017 Citations of Merit recently during Preservation Future Tense: Oklahoma's 29th Annual Statewide Preservation Conference, Oklahoma City. Recipients in Oklahoma City and Tulsa were published last week. Recipients elsewhere were:

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Museum of the Western Prairie; Preservation Oklahoma Inc.; Southern Prairie Library System; and Western Trail Historical Society for sponsorship of Tombstone Restoration Workshops and Presentations conducted by Tombstone Conservator Jonathan Appell.

Bartlesville

McCoy Building LLC and Keleher Architects for rehabilitation of the McCoy Building, in the Bartlesville Downtown Historic District.

Bartlesville 125 LLC, Lilly Architects, and Rosin Preservation LLC for rehabilitation of Sharp's Pawn Shop in the Bartlesville Downtown Historic District.

Durant

DH Housing Limited Partnership; Strategic Realty; The Hill firm; Big Five Community Services Inc.; and Mike Kertok, Architect, for rehabilitation of the Bryan Hotel in the Durant Downtown Historic District.

Enid

Cherokee Terrace LP and Rosin Preservation LLC for rehabilitation of Enid's historic Cherokee Terrace Apartments.

Main Street Enid, Inc.; the city of Enid; Visit Enid; Park Avenue Thrift; and Wymer Brownlee for sponsorship of Preservation is Golden: Oklahoma's 28th Annual Statewide Preservation Conference, held June 1-3, 2016, in Enid.

Fort Sill

Fort Sill for rehabilitation of the Fort Sill Artillery Bowl, a WPA-constructed stadium for formal ceremonies and entertainment and recreational events.

Foyle

David and Patsy Anderson, Margo Hoover and Erin Turner for the historic Ed Galloway Totem Pole Park preservation project.

Guymon

Dale Housing Partners, LP and Preservation and Design Studio for rehabilitation of downtown Guymon's historic Hotel Dale.

Muskogee

Jonita Mullins for publication of The Jefferson Highway in Oklahoma.

Muskogee Historic Preservation Commission and Okie Heritage for publication of Muskogee's Colorful History Coloring Book.

Muskogee Arts District Homes LP and Preservation and Design Studio for rehabilitation of Muskogee's Severs Block, in the Pre-Statehood Commercial District.

Noble

Richard Drass for his career of service in the study and protection of Oklahoma's archaeological heritage.

Norman

Robert Bartlett for his career of service in the study and preservation of Oklahoma's archaeological heritage.

Marjorie Duncan for her career of service in the study and protection of Oklahoma's archaeological heritage.

Okmulgee

Park on the Square LLC, Ron Drake Consulting and J Square Construction for rehabilitation of the Parkinson Trent and Company Building in the Okmulgee Downtown Historic District.

Ponca City

U.S. Postal Service, GH2 Architects LLC, and Ed A. Wilson Inc. for the exemplary window replacement project for the historic United States Post Office in Ponca City.

Sand Springs

City of Sand Springs, Sand Springs Historic and Cultural Museum, GH2 Architects LLC and VOY Construction for the exterior rehabilitation of the historic Page Memorial Library, now home of the Sand Springs Historic and Cultural Museum.

Shawnee

Historic Shawnee Alliance Inc. for leadership and public educational programming that contribute to the preservation of Shawnee's historic built environment.

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Cheri Killam-Bomhard and Ken Ruhnke; Chickasaw National Recreation Area; and Spring 2016 Environmental Design Capstone Class, Environmental Design Program, University of Oklahoma College of Architecture for collaboration on the design of the historic Panther Falls Comfort Station and the Cold Springs Campground upgrade project in the Chickasaw National Recreation Area.

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