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Father And Son Pizzeria Plans To Transform Logan Square Intersection

By Paul Biasco | July 11, 2016 7:23am
 Father and Son, 2475 N. Milwaukee Ave., is looking to expand its Logan Square building.
Father and Son, 2475 N. Milwaukee Ave., is looking to expand its Logan Square building.
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LOGAN SQUARE — The owner of Marcello's Father and Son is looking to expand the Logan Square pizzeria in a project that could possibly include residential and or office space on upper floors.

The restaurant, which has been in operation at 2475 N. Milwaukee Ave. since 1965, is looking to completely gut and redo the pizzeria while expanding the building.

The expansion could include outdoor dining spaces, party rooms, a bar and more, according to owner Billy Bauer whose family has operated the business for more than 50 years.

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"It's time," Bauer said. "We’ve been waiting for quite a while. We went through several years when the economy wasn’t that great. The area wasn’t ready to support a restaurant on that scale."

The redevelopment of the restaurant would likely include an addition to the building up to four stories, according to Bauer.

To fund the project, Marcello's is looking to sell a 1.7-acre shopping center on North Avenue in Lincoln Park.

Marcello's has a pizzeria in the shopping center that was listed for sale this week.

The family also has restaurants in Northbrook and Skokie.

Bauer said he expects the expansion project, which would move the parking lot and build up to the corner of Sacramento and Milwaukee, is still one or two years off at the earliest. 

He said he hopes to capitalize on the development boom happening in the neighborhood.

"I feel like the corner of Sacramento and Milwaukee in Logan Square is kind of the hub between the development going on in Logan Square to the north and everything happening south of there in the Bucktown and Wicker Park area," Bauer said. 

The timing is also right, according to Bauer, to sell the Lincoln Park property.

Crain's report on the possible sale estimated that bids for the shopping center would be in the mid-$20 million to mid-$30 million range.

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