ANDERSONVILLE — Japanese restaurant Tokyo Marina is closed after 35 years at 5058 N. Clark Street, where a new condo development is slated to break ground in November.
The sushi joint's owners — Suprod Limplatya, Protoom Ruengpinyophun and Soon Pattanapongsirikul — also previously owned the building, which they sold in May to an LLC owned by Michael and Peter Slavin for at least $1.1 million, records show.
The new owners have plans for a mixed-use condo building with ground-floor retail tenants they've yet to finalize.
Limplatya, Ruengpinyophun and Pattanapongsirikul were unreachable for comment.
On Monday, Michael Slavin said he was unsure why the restaurant owners decided to sell and close up shop.
Jason Cox, associate director of the Andersonville Chamber of Commerce, said Monday that the restaurant had many fans around the neighborhood who were sad to see it go. He noted that while "there's quite a few sushi places now in Andersonville," that hasn't always been the case, and that Tokyo Marina was likely one of the neighborhood's oldest sushi joints — if not the oldest.
Renderings of Michael and Peter Slavin's plans for 5058 N. Clark St. show a four-story apartment building with a glass-and-brick facade and floor-to-ceiling windows. About 3,160 square feet of retail space would be split between two ground-level storefronts.
There would be six apartments, all about 1,500 square feet with three bedrooms and two bathrooms, according to plans.
Michael Slavin said construction will begin in November and end in the summer of 2015.
The renderings initially included images of two businesses named Yarn Barn and Rolls & Bowls. But the developer and office of Ald. Ameya Pawar (47th) said those were just placeholders or "dummy" images and not a reflection of any businesses slated to fill the space.
Now, the renderings show signs that say "retail" and "cafe," indicating the types of businesses the developers would like to see there, although they haven't officially penciled anything in there.
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