You do want to know what they are putting in those sausages!
The developers who bought a beloved Greenwood Heights Polish grocery store that closed in May are turning the old-school Fifth Avenue mainstay into a stack of apartments and retail space.
George Malafis and Ioannis Glyptis are knocking down part of the three-story building that housed Eagle Provisions, a sausage and beer haven, and replacing it with a six-story structure that will house 28 residential units on top of ground-floor retail space, according to a permit application filed with the department of buildings on July 24.
The architecture firm taking on the project, Tom Winter Architects, has unveiled renderings of the new building on its website, and stated that the new project will incorporate the original facades of the Polish market into the new design.
The neighborhood fixture at 626–630 Fifth Avenue served up kielbasa and an astounding selection of 2,500 beers to the Greenwood Heights community for more than 75 years before owners Richard and John Zawisny put the building on the market for $9 million last year when the cost of running the business became too high, though the brothers were divided over the decision.
Developers ultimately snatched up the property for $7.5 million in April, and the Zawisny brothers, who had run the market since 1979, closed in May.
Construction should be underway later this year, though the application filed by the developers is still pending approval.
Malafis and Glyptis, as well as Tom Winter Architects, have not responded to requests for comment.
