Jan 6, 2022

Eater chicago: The 12 Most Anticipated Restaurants in Chicago for 2022 by Ashok Selvam

Ramova Grill Address: 3518 S. Halsted Street, Bridgeport

Chef Kevin Hickey (The Duck Inn) says his menu is ready — they’ll have a section devoted to chili — when he reopens Ramova Grill inside the 90-year-old Ramova Theater that’s going through a $23 million remodel. Hickey has a fondness for the area and wants to bring back some of those food memories, including some Lithuanian flavors of yore. Expect old-school diner specials, as well.

June 24, 2021

block club chicago: Eden Restaurant Will Reopen This Fall With New Location Along Chicago River In Avondale by mauricio pena

NEAR WEST SIDE — Eden, a contemporary American restaurant, will reopen in a new spot along the Chicago River in Avondale.

The Paramount Group, which co-owns Eden, announced plans to bring back the restaurant at an expansive complex that also will house its headquarters for its catering and hospitality businesses later this fall. An address has not yet been assigned, but the eatery will be on Roscoe Street just east of California Avenue, said Jodi Fyfe, Eden co-owner and Paramount Group CEO.

June 23, 2021

chicago eater: A Top Flight Caterer and Restaurant Is Moving Riverside to Avondale by ashok selvam

With a lease set to expire this fall, the owners of Eden decided it was time to leave their West Loop location in front of “L” tracks along Lake Street near the United Center. Closed since July 2020 due to the pandemic, Eden has found a new location along the Chicago River near the corner of Roscoe and California between Roscoe Village and Avondale.

June 22, 2021

crain’s Chicago business: Eden to reopen along the river with even more garden and patio space By ally marotti

The restaurant, known for its on-site greenhouse, is moving to Avondale after it shuttered its West Town location last summer as a result of the pandemic. 

April 22, 2021

Daily Coffee News by Roast Magazine: SK Coffee Gallops Into First Retail Coffee Bar in the Twin Cities By Howard Bryman

The Dala Horse of Saint Paul, Minnesota, at last has a pasture of its own. SK Coffee, whose colorful geometric logo takes the shape of the traditional Swedish toy horse, has opened its first retail coffee bar in the bright lobby adjacent to its roastery on the ground floor of the Vandalia Tower in Saint Paul.

High ceilings, white-painted brick walls, concrete floors and satisfying right angles form the basis of a modern-industrial interior design that reflects the the brand, with lush potted plants and wood surfaces and accents introducing notes of nature.

Roughly 4,000 square feet of space is technically available to customers in the expansive lobby, where the 1,200-square-foot roastery is visible through a glass wall and shelving behind the small bar.

April 21, 2021

timeout chicago: Life on Marz Community Club

Time Out says

After years of work, the latest Marz Community Brewing outpost has opened at the edge of Logan Square and Bucktown. Dubbed the Life on Marz Community Club, the taproom is located in the same building that houses the Margie's Candies ice cream parlor and the Snakes & Lattes board game café.

The space is a bit smaller than the Marz Community Brewing taproom in Bridgeport, but it's decor is as stylish as the art that graces the brewery's various beer cans. Dangling lights and embellished wood-panels complement a cooler stocked with cans of Marz creations, plus a tap system if you prefer to drink draft beer.

April 21, 2021

Block club chicago: Marz Brewing’s Logan Square Taproom Opens This Weekend by Mina Bloom

LOGAN SQUARE — After about two years of planning, Marz Brewing’s Logan Square spot is ready for its public debut.

The brewery and taproom, called Life on Marz Community Club, is set to open 4 p.m. Friday in the Margie’s Candies building at 1950 N. Milwaukee Ave., the Marz team said in a series of Instagram posts Tuesday evening. The new spot will be open 2-10 p.m. Saturday and noon-6 p.m. Sunday.

April 7, 2021

Twin cities pioneer press: Incoming! The scoop on St. Paul’s latest ice cream shop and a single-origin coffee shop

Say hello to a new coffee bar — one that prefers not to sell lattes –in the lobby of Vandalia Tower in St. Paul. That’s because the team behind SK Coffee wants those who come through the door to experience rare, single origin coffee it sources from small-scale farming partners in all of its glory. While there still will be steamed milk options, the coffee bar will mainly spotlight coffee through four flavor categories: smooth, sweet, bold and unique. There will be a regular rotation of those categories and beans will be roasted in a production facility adjacent to the coffee bar.

March 22, 2021

Chicago Tribune: Ramova Theater revival was stalled by COVID, but developers now say the project will be a full historic preservation

If nothing else, being stuck in a state of pandemic paralysis over the past year has provided plenty of time to reflect on the future.

For developers of the Ramova Theater, that meant reexamining plans to revive a 90-year-old, dilapidated movie theater — widely applauded by a receptive Bridgeport neighborhood keen to get new life into a beloved community anchor — and see how they could make it better.

Originally set to break ground in early 2020, the theater project, like most everyone’s plans, halted at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. The proposal cleared an early hurdle through City Hall, but still needs to go before City Council to secure the city-owned theater, an adjoining parking lot, and millions of dollars in tax-increment financing. Read More

March 22, 2021

Chicago Sun-Times: After a pandemic pause, developer picks up plan at Bridgeport’s Ramova Theatre

For anyone who likes old Chicago movie houses or performance venues, those ornate places meant to transport patrons of years past to a romanticized place far away, I have good news and — well — I won’t call it bad news, but it’s disappointing nonetheless.

To the good news: Despite the pandemic, which has knocked the props from under any business in the performing arts or that requires crowds to gather, a developer is undeterred in his plans to restore Bridgeport’s Ramova Theatre at 3518 S. Halsted St. Read More.

March 22, 2021

Baum Revision: Introducing New Wampum Underground Website and Suite of Services

Connecting you to our unique warehousing solution! Our hands-on ownership, management team and facility staff boast a combined 100 years of subsurface development, real estate, and logistics expertise.

This team supports our three operating divisions: Real Estate, Logistics, and Vehicle Storage. The divisions work in concert to offer customers a wide variety of logistics services, real estate development and custom tenant space design, as well as providing seasonal recreational vehicle storage management. Read More.

February 5, 2021

ISthmus : Winter is Alive! a cooler world carnival

Winter is Alive is presented by Dane Arts and Garver Events with additional support from the Madison Arts Commission and Sustain Dane.

Dec 23, 2020

MidwestLiving : Ayurveda You Can Try at Home—Or at a New Wisconsin Spa By Kelsey Ogletree

You can try it at Kosa (KO-sha), a new spa in the Garver Feed Mill, a food hall-meets-wellness center in Madison, Wisconsin. Founder Shilpa Sankaran describes Ayurveda as the science of life and how the universe relates to your body. Read More.

Dec 11, 2020

Bock Club chicago : Lakeview Pantry Expands To Avondale, Will Feed Hundreds More As Need Skyrockets by Mina Bloom

The distribution center at 2718 W. Roscoe St. will allow the food pantry to serve at least 1,000 more people a month at a time when the need for assistance is up 200 percent.

Dec 9, 2020

Crain’s Chicago Business : The local real estate connection to Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine By Danny Ecker

Baum Realty Group became the pharmaceutical company’s landlord just before the pandemic.

Dec 8, 2020

Bisnow : Baum Revision signed a 30K SF lease with Kids’ Work Chicago Too, a mother/daughter-owned child care and early learning group, at Riverview at Roscoe, the former WMS campus along the Chicago River by Brian Rogal

Dec 4, 2020

connect media: Childcare Group Joins Tenant Roster at Former WMS Campus

The Chicago office of Stream Realty Partners secured a long-term lease on behalf of Baum Revision with Kids’ Work Chicago Too. This mother/daughter-owned childcare and early learning group leased 30,635 square feet at Riverview at Roscoe, located at 2718 W. Roscoe St. on Chicago’s North Side.

Dec 3, 2020

Rejournals: Stream Realty Partners secures lease with Kids’ Work Chicago Too in Chicago

Stream Realty Partners’ Chicago office has secured a long-term lease on behalf of Baum Revision with Kids’ Work Chicago Too. This mother/daughter-owned childcare and early learning group leased 30,635 square feet at Riverview at Roscoe, located at 2718 W. Roscoe Street on Chicago’s North Side.

Dec 2, 2020

bizjournals: New owner takes on 2.5 million-square-foot Wampum Underground Commerce Center, formerly a limestone mine

Dec 2, 2020

PITTSBURGH business times: New owner takes on 2.5 million-square-foot Wampum Underground Commerce Center, formerly a limestone mine

Former mine generating growing demand for third-party logistics storage amid the pandemic as new owners plan expansion prospects. Read More.

November 1, 2020

Twin cities pioneer press: Pandemic no obstacle, Tamarack software company finds room to grow in St. Paul’s Vandalia Tower By Frederick melo

Dan Nelson, CEO and founder of Tamarack Consulting, right, and his older brother Scott Nelson, Tamarack’s chief digital officer, are moving their equipment financing software company from the North Loop of Minneapolis to Vandalia Tower in St. Paul to take advantage of its central location, flexible work space, surface parking, start-up culture and a fly-fishing shop in the building. Read More.

September 10, 2020

Merrill foto news: Wisconsin tourism Awards $222,255 in Joint Effort Marketing Grants

On Wednesday, Sept. 2, the state;s Department of Tourism announced $222,255 awarded in Joint Effort Marketing (JEM) grants. JEM grants provide partnership funding to help nonprofit Wisconsin organizations promote tourism, including 501(c) (6) organizations such as Convention and Visitor Bureaus and Chambers of Commerce. Read More.

August 26, 2020

rebusiness online: Chamberlain University Signs 75,000 SF Lease at Riverview at Roscoe in Chicago by Kristin Hiller

CHICAGO — Chamberlain University, known for its nursing school, has signed a lease for 75,000 square feet of educational space at Riverview at Roscoe on Chicago’s North Side. Baum Revision acquired the office property in a joint venture with Meridian Capital in March of this year. The property is currently undergoing capital improvements with a focus on wellness to achieve LEED Platinum certification.

August 18, 2020

bisnow: placemaking requires more than cosmetic changes By Brian Rogal | August 18, 2020

Placemaking is more than cosmetic changes, Baum Revision principal Scott Goldman added. His firm takes over potential adaptive reuse projects that can have a strong identity, one that comes not just from the structural qualities, but from its historic use, the history of the surrounding neighborhood and its overall environment.

August 18, 2020

CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS— INVESTORS SCORE A BIG WIN AT PROPERTY ON RIVER BY DANNY ECKER | AUGUST 18, 2020 09:21 AM

A chain of nursing schools will move its Chicago campus into the former WMS Industries headquarters in Avondale.

July 22, 2020

Block club chicago: Wormhole Opens ’90s-Themed Coffee Shop Inside Margie’s Candies Building by Hannah Alani | JUL 22, 2020 11:57AM CDT

Wormhole 2 is the latest addition to the corner, where Marz Community Brewing will open a brewery and taproom soon. Located at 1953 N. Milwaukee Ave., the coffee shop is an extension of the ’80s-themed Wicker Park Wormhole Coffee, 1462 N. Milwaukee Ave.

June 19, 2020

for immediate release: Baum Revision Receives Award from the Wisconsin Historical Society

Chicago, IL. – The Wisconsin Historical Society is excited to announce that Baum Revision is the recipient of the 2020 Historic Restoration Award for their role in the preservation of the Garver Feed Mill in Madison, WI.

June 18, 2020

NBC 15: Garver Feed Mill receives 2020 Historic Restoration Award By Claire Olson |Thu 8:26 PM, Jun 18, 2020

MADISON, Wis. (WMTV)-- The Wisconsin Historical Society announced that Baum Revision received the 2020 Historic Restoration Award after preserving the Garver Feed Mill in Madison.

April 30, 2020

milwaukee journal SENTINEL— AIA Wisconsin 2020 architecture awards

Garver Feed Mill of Madison has won a Merit Award for architectural excellence from AIA Wisconsin. The core and shell was designed by SmithGroup, of Madison and Phoenix; tenant improvements designed by The Kubala Washatko Architects, Cedarburg.

April 27, 2020

wkow 27 abc: midday MADISON— “Outside Looking In” drive-by art exhibit

If you drive by Garver Feed Mill in the next few weeks, you may notice something a little different. Garver Feed Mill recently launched the "Outside Looking In" drive-by art exhibit that will stay up for the duration of the Wisconsin Safer at Home order. Bethany Jurewicz joined us to share more about how this idea began and how you can support the local artists involved.

April 21, 2020

Madison magazine— arts and culture Garver Feed Mill creates drive-thru art exhibition by Maija Inveiss | Published April 21, 2020 9:09 AM

Garver Feed Mill is raising donations for the artists

“Outside Looking In: A Drive-Thru Exhibition” was developed for distance-viewing in mind, a release says. All work can be seen by car or bike. Guests can drive around to take in the art.

April 17, 2020

chicago tribune — First Lori Lightfoot memes, now earrings and T-shirts — plus where to get the mask that she wears by DAVID SYREK

The one-star Chicago flag mask that Lightfoot has been wearing was made by Logan Square shop Pride Masks. Co-founder Alan Spaeth said that when their regular business dried up, they started creating masks. “Each day, we try to set aside a supply of masks for the police and first responders, then sell the remainder on our site, pridemasks.com to keep the business open.”

April 14, 2020

nbc chicago— Meet the Company That Made Lightfoot’s Chicago-Theme Face Mask by Kate Chappell | Published April 14, 2020 at 5:46 pm

As more people in Chicago are wearing face masks to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, many are asking who made Mayor Lori Lightfoot's custom protective mask featuring the colors of the Chicago flag and the hashtag #StayHome.

April 14, 2020

crain’s chicago business— Chicago Firm buys north branch office property By Danny Ecker | published April 14, 2020 12:00 pm

Baum Revision plans to convert the two building complex into a multitenant property and re-lease it

A Chicago real estate firm has revamped a series of Northwest Side properties near the Chicago River has picked its next target.

April 2020

IN BUSINESS MADISON— 2020 Commercial Design Awards: Commercial design matters, even in a crisis by JOE VANDEN PLAS | Published April 2020

Winning CDA projects demonstrate the business and societal value of high-level commercial design.

Garver Feed Mill - Best New Development or Renovation — Mixed Use

The renovated Garver Feed Mill preserves a piece of Madison’s agricultural and industrial history by reactivating the building as a next-generation food production center, wellness center, and community and events space. The 62,000-square-foot building could have been demolished instead of repurposed, but instead the community was able to transform the old feed mill into an accessible facility that provides guests an intimate experience with the historic building and its array of special tenants.

Spectrum news 1— Drive through local food pickup connects small farms with customers by Jeff Dahdah | PUBLISHED 6:23 PM ET APR. 02, 2020

MADISON, WI (SPECTRUM NEWS) — Many small-scale farms rely on farmer's markets to sell products. However, the coronavirus and the social restrictions surrounding it have closed most markets.

The Dane County Farmers' Market closed its winter market early. While it still doesn't know when or if it will be able to open the summer market on Capitol Square in Madison, they are still facilitating sales.

People can order from many of the vendors online. On Wednesday vendors set up in the Garver Feed Mill parking lot as cars drove through and picked up orders.

“Clearly with everything going on with the COVID-19 pandemic, we need to minimize the number of connections, but people still need to eat and our farmers still have products that they need to sell,” said Sarah Elliot, the farmers market manager. (Read More)

March 30, 2020

Wisconsin state journal— Drive-thru farmers' market works for farmers and fans, but will it continue amid COVID-19 pandemic? by Samara Kalk Derby

Austin and Wendy Guan, 27, biked to the Garver Feed Mill behind Olbrich Botanical Gardens on Madison’s East Side from their Tenney-Lapham neighborhood. They’d ordered spinach that Josh Engel, owner of Driftless Organics, 10 miles west of Soldiers Grove, had grown in a hoop house.

March 26, 2020

timeout chicago— This new Chicago café will deliver dinner and a board game to your apartment By Emma Krupp | Posted: Thursday March 26, 2020

Sure, Monopoly and Uno are fun, but after a few weeks of the same old board games, you might find yourself itching to try something new. Enter The Chicago Board Game Cafe, the new game-and-dining venture from the folks behind Cards Against Humanity, which will furnish dinner and an inventive board game for pickup or delivery straight to your apartment. 

March 24, 2020

inhabitat.com— wisconsin’s hidden eco-wellness hotspot Written by Teresa Bergen | March 24, 2020

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The Garver Feed Mill building is the latest wellness star in the Madison scene. After the US Sugar Company constructed this brick behemoth in 1906 for beet sugar processing, it became known as the Sugar Castle because of its dramatic arched gothic windows. Later it was a factory for formulating livestock feed, before sitting derelict for a couple of decades. But just last November, it reopened as a spectacularly popular event space, site of the farmers’ market during winter, and home of wellness providers and artisan food makers. The whole building is gorgeous, with lots of exposed brick walls, big windows and chandeliers.

March 22, 2020

the bozho— Dane County Farmers’ Market to pilot new food pickup program By Cheyenne Langkamp | March 22, 2020

On Tuesday, March 24, and also on Thursday, March 26, customers will be able to pick up orders from participating vendors, with products ranging from a Basic Butcher Value Box to Ooey Gooey Cookies. Customers place their orders directly with vendors, and can pick up their goods between 4-6 p.m. at the Garver Feed Mill parking lot on either Tuesday or Thursday. There will be both car and pedestrian lanes, so arrive in whichever style you choose.

March 11, 2020

Wisconsin state journal— photos: See restored Garver Feed Mill through the years by state journal staff | Published March 11, 2020

After many years of neglect, the 113-year-old Garver Feed Mill has been restored as a center for food and wellness businesses. Here's a look at the building's new profile, as well as what it looked like over the years.

Click here for photos.

March 10, 2020

Rejournals— IREM Chicago 2020 Premier Awards showcases excellence in CRE property management march 10, 2020

These four professionals earning individual Premier Awards in their respective categories were Crystal Stude, CPM, Community Specialists – CPM of the Year; Angel Edwards, ARM, Baum Revision – ARM of the Year; Shari Vass, CPM, Braeside Community Management – Leadership Award and Tasha Rush, ARM, A & R Katz Management – Rising Star. Two companies that provide products and services to the metropolitan Chicago property management industry also earned awards: Smart Elevator – Industry Partner of the Year and Habitat Company – Property Management Company of the Year.

March 3, 2020

The Badger Herald— Late Winter FARMERS’ Market brings fresh local produce to Madison By veronica Kuffel | Published March 3, 2020

The Dane County Farmers’ Market offers chance to get fresh local produce in winter’

The Late Winter Market is located east of the Capitol at the Garver Feed Mill, an iconic, renovated building that hosts a number of small shops and gathering hall.

February 24, 2020

madison magazine: shopping and style— Fitchburg based boutique popping up at Garver Feed Mill by maija inveiss | Published February 24, 2020

Cosa Boutique, which opened its doors in September on Nesbitt Road in Fitchburg, announced Monday it will be opening up a pop-up shop in Garver Feed Mill.

February 20, 2020

Block club chicago— Take A Peek Inside Cards Against Humanity’s Chicago Board Game Cafe (It’s Open!) by mina bloom | Published feb 20, 2020 2:10 cst

The restaurant, bar and game shop, which opened last week in the Margies Candies building at 1965 N. Milwaukee Ave., was designed to look like a town square, complete with cafe nooks, cobblestone streets and street lamps.

Block club chicago— Cards Against Humanity’s Logan Square Board Game Cafe Opening Next Week by mina bloom | published february 4, 2020 5:21 pm

At the cafe, opening in the Margie's Candies building, patrons will be able to choose games from a massive board game vault to play over dinner and drinks.

LOGAN SQUARE — The Chicago Board Game Cafe, a restaurant, bar and game shop from the team behind Cards Against Humanity, is opening Feb. 14 at the Logan Square/Bucktown border.

At the new spot, which occupies 14,000 square feet in the Margie’s Candies building at 1965 N. Milwaukee Ave., patrons will be able to choose games from a massive board game vault to play over dinner and drinks.

The game vault will feature more than 300 games ranging from Scrabble, Monopoly and, of course, Cards Against Humanity — the subversive, sometimes raunchy card game — to indie games from all over the world.

The Cards Against Humanity team tapped Aaron McKay (Schwa, NoMi, Le Lan) and Evan Behmer (Mercat a la Planxa, North Pond) to craft the food menu, which is inspired by markets and sidewalk cafes in Spain, Vietnam and Mexico. Entrees range from $14-$60. Wine and cocktails start at $10.

February 5, 2020

Madison.com— the corner table podcast: vegan and delicious | by lindsay christians and chris lay

For chef Lauren Montelbano, who runs the kitchen at Surya Cafe in Fitchburg and the new Surya at Garver Feed Mill in Madison, accommodating dietary restrictions is a welcome challenge. In fact, she calls it her "personal Tetris."

On this week's show, she chats with Lindsay and Chris about how she started making vegan food, why she thinks healthy food can and should be delicious, and why some people get emotional when they come to Surya.

Also on the show: The best vegan dishes for winter weather, and what visitors can expect at Femmestival, an event from Culinary Ladies Collective coming up on Sunday, February 23.

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January 30, 2020

Deforest times-tribune: D News— Find cabin fever cures in Wisconsin By dick emerson | Published January 30, 2020

The following are a few suggestions for a day out from that cabin of yours:

The Dane County Farmers Market is held every Saturday morning in Madison. During the summer, spring and fall seasons it is located around the Capitol Square but from January to April 4 it moves to the Old Garver Feed Mill on Madison’s east side. Products that can be found featured this week are: beef, carrots, chicken eggs, goat milk cheese, honey, lamb, micro greens, mushrooms, pastries and potatoes. Open from 8 a.m. to noon. For more details visit: dcdm.org

up north news: our wisconsin— This Indoor Market Is a Big Winter Win for Farmers and Customers by jessica vanegeren | published JAN 26, 2020 7:51 PM

Newly relocated Madison attraction is an economic boost for growers

The Dane County Farmers’ Market is the country’s largest produce-only market with some 265 vendors and crowds of roughly 20,000 weekly. Located around the Capitol Square in downtown Madison in spring, summer and fall, it is a big draw for locals and tourists alike. Locals joke that market newbies quickly stand out for trying to walk clockwise among the sea of seasoned shoppers. 

Every winter since the early 1990’s, this massive market morphs into a small version of itself and heads indoors. First it spent a few weeks at Monona Terrace, then it was based at the Madison Senior Center from January through April. This year, it has found a new permanent winter home at the recently renovated Garver Feed Mill on Madison’s East Side. 

January 22, 2020

The telegraph: You’re going where? madison, wisconsin. kate silver, the washington post | published 11:58 am cst, wednesday, january 22, 2020

Local Faves: The bundled-up winter personality of Madison is quite different from its carefree summer self. Thankfully, one beloved mainstay is available throughout all seasons: the Dane County Farmers’ Market. It stake its claim as the largest producer-only market in the United States (meaning the people you buy from are the people who produced the products - no reselling is allowed), and, while its late-winter version (Saturday through April 4) is more staid than the downtown summer incarnations (surrounding the Capitol building Saturdays and Wednesdays in the 200 block of Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, April-November) there’s something especially gratifying about perusing hardly produce and products - greens, apples, honey, potatoes, mushrooms, cheese curds, pastries and more - when it’s frid outside. This year, the winter market is in a new location inside the Garver Feed Mill, a stately brick building recently renovated and reopend as a hub for small, locally owned businesses (a spa, a yoga studio, kombucha) and restaurants.

January 16, 2020

Eater Chicago: Coming Attractions— The ‘Cards Against Humanity’ Restaurant Will Be a Miniature Town Square by Daniel Gerzina

Patrons entering the forthcoming Chicago Board Game Cafe — the first restaurant, bar, gaming venue, and retail shop from the Chicago-based folks behind the ever-popular card game Cards Against Humanity — will step into a miniature town square. The 14,000-square-foot space is a multi-prong operation where individual “buildings” are set on cobblestone streets with street lamps. It’s design is different than nearly every other restaurant in Chicago.

January 9, 2019: The cap times— Winter farmers’ market moves to Garver, drawing crowds — and traffic

Each January, as true winter weather sets in, the Dane County Farmers’ Market moves indoors. Last Saturday, after more than 15 years of wintering at the Madison Senior Center downtown, it kicked off the new season at the Garver Feed Mill on Madison’s east side. The 113-year-old former sugar beet processing facility opened to the public last November after two years of renovations. 

Market Manager Sarah Elliott said she knew the market had outgrown the small downtown location, but she didn’t realize the extent of that growth until she saw the crowds last Saturday. More than 4,000 people turned out, Elliott said, about eight times the 500 that previous late winter markets averaged.

“We were absolutely overwhelmed by the incredible amount of support,” Elliott said, adding that it can be more challenging to buy local in the winter when there’s less diversity in market offerings. “It’s absolutely incredible that the community came out to support local farmers.” (read more)

January 2, 2019

Parking tips for the dane co. late winter market at garver feed mill

MADISON, Wis (WMTV) - The Dane Co. Late Winter Farmers’ Market begins Sat. at Garver Feed Mill on Madison’s East side. For more than a decade, the Madison Senior Center housed the event. Sarah Elliott, the market manager for the Dane Co. Farmers’ Market, said they outgrew the space. She said about 45 vendors will take part in the upcoming market. “It just seemed like a really amazing fit, especially with their devotion and passion toward food and agriculture,” she said..

November 14, 2019: RESTAURANT REVIEW— Good vibes from new Surya at Garver

The new Surya, which opened in the newly-renovated Garver Feed Mill behind Olbrich Gardens on Sept. 30, doesn't use eggs of any sort, so the restaurant is strictly vegan, and now the Fitchburg location is, too.

The harvest salad is a perfect fall meal with kale, roasted butternut squash, Brussels sprouts, savory granola, spiced pepitas and dried cranberries in a maple-mustard vinaigrette.

The food at the new Surya on a recent visit was as consistently excellent as it was when I ate in the Fitchburg Surya, which means "sun" in Sanskrit.

"When people walk into the restaurant, if it screams vegan, some people are quite turned off by that," Montelbano said. "Probably over 50 percent of my customers aren't actually vegan themselves. They're either gluten free or they just want to eat healthy food."

November 1, 2019

'It's a magical place': Revived Garver Feed Mill to celebrate with Friday grand opening

Where there was once a dilapidated, crumbling landmark of a building on Madison’s east side, now stands the renovated Garver Feed Mill that houses a group of local business owners…

November 8, 2019: Madison's century-old 'Sugar Castle' has found new life as a food hall

There’s no record of exactly what the United States Sugar Co. was thinking at the beginning of the 20th century when it considered designs for its new sugar beet factory on Madison’s east side.  

But the company ended up with a rather elegant, four-story structure with Romanesque arches and a turret that today is on the National Register of Historic Places. Locals were so impressed with the building, which opened in 1906, that they dubbed it the Sugar Castle. At its peak, it could process 500 tons of sugar beets a day, according to the Wisconsin Historical Society.

Fast forward 113 years and the building, lowered by two stories and converted into a grain-processing plant in the 1930s, has been lovingly restored at a cost of $15 million. Now known as the Garver Feed Mill, it sits in a lively section of Madison’s isthmus. The Capital City Bike Trail runs beside it, and it’s literally a stone’s throw from the 16-acre Olbrich Gardens.

OCTOBER 23, 2019— chicAGO EATER COMING ATTRACTIONS: ‘Cards Against Humanity’ Party Game Owners to Open Chicago Restaurant

Chicago Board Game Cafe will offer games, a bar and restaurant, and two escape rooms in Logan Square/Bucktown

The team behind Cards Against Humanity, the popular and gleefully offensive card game, is opening a full-service board game restaurant, bar, shop, and library near the border of Logan Square and Bucktown. Chicago Board Game Cafe should open in January in the same building as Margie’s Candies, the 98-year-old ice cream and candy shop at 1965 N. Milwaukee Avenue.

Margie’s won’t be affected by the new venue, according to a news release. The building will also soon be home to Marz Community Brewing’s second tap room and Wormhole 2, a ‘90s-style sequel to essential Wicker Park coffee shop the Wormhole.

Photo: SHUTTERSHOCK

October 16, 2019

For First Time in 30 Years, Vinyl Records Being Made in Chicago

So Weber and some friends started their own record plant, the first in Chicago in about 30 years. Production at Smashed Plastic began in February, and they say 90% of their orders have been from Chicago bands and labels.

September 18, 2019

Ledger domain | Garver Feed Mill to welcome its first coffee shop

“Garver is the place I wanted to be,” Wirsta says. “It has beautiful architecture, an open environment, and an energy and history that I appreciate.”

August 10, 2019— Photos: Garver Gourmet at Garver Feed Mill

A large scale food event at the newly renovated, 60,000-square-foot Garver Feed Mill brought went swimmingly last Saturday. Sitka Salmon Shares and Underground Food Collective hosted "Garver Gourmet" in the recently renovated former sugar beet mill on Madison's near east side.

Some tenants, like a new location of Ian's Pizza, Calliope Ice Cream and NessAlla Kombucha, were already open and operating. But Saturday night's event brought in many people who hadn't seen the space before. 

According to Bryant Moderer at Baum Revision, Surya Cafe (the vegetarian restaurant affiliated with Perennial Yoga) is set to open in late September. So is Richard Wirsta's coffee roaster, Ledger. Ian's Pizza will be open for lunch later this fall, starting with Saturdays and Sundays only. 

Other tenants include the photography studio Twig & Olive, a florist called Briar Loft and Kosa Wellness Spa & Retreat. Bachmann Construction worked on the $15.5 million restoration.

Photo: Ben Brewer

August 6, 2019

A new event space and brewery could be coming soon to West Allis

Baum is proposing to rehabilitate the 40,000-square-foot building and create a 10,000-square-foot event space and perhaps an accompanying brewery or café…

August 1, 2019

The new Garver Feed Mill is now open

After a long and costly renovation process, the Garver Feed Mill is open to the public. It sat vacant and abandoned for two decades as the structure deteriorated, became a favorite canvas for graffiti artists, and was gutted by fire…

July 24, 2019

Excitement builds as Ian's opens in Garver Feed Mill building

MADISON, Wis. (WMTV) -- It's a giant building that has sat on Fair Oaks Avenue since 1906 -- The Garver Feed Mill. A space once dedicated to animal feed, now is dedicated to its community.

July 23, 2019

block club chicago: Wormhole Coffee Will Join Margie’s Candies On Logan Square/Bucktown Border by Hannah Alani

LOGAN SQUARE — It’s official: the coffeeshop that will become a neighbor of Margie’s Candies at 1953 N. Milwaukee Ave. is Wicker Park’s very own and beloved Wormhole Coffee.

July 21, 2019: Rebirth of an icon: Garver Feed Mill reopens after decades of decay

After nearly two decades of neglect and decay, a relic of Madison’s blue-collar past has been reborn as a hub for local food and wellness businesses that reflect the new vibe of the city’s East Side.

With restoration of the 113-year-old Garver Feed Mill nearing completion, Ian’s Pizza plans to start serving food this week in the onetime sugar factory behind Olbrich Botanical Gardens at 3241 Garver Green.

Ian’s will be the second of 11 contracted tenants — and the first retail business — to open in the 60,000-square-foot space, where workers continued to add finishing touches last week as passersby peered through the windows.

Inside, exposed steel trusses soar nearly 40 feet above a 13,500-square-foot atrium lit by 29 historic windows and flanked by a new mezzanine that runs nearly the length of a football field…

June 27, 2019

Want To Live Above Margie’s Candies? $3.7 Million Project To Add 20 Apartments

There’s 20 new apartments being built atop the iconic ice cream parlor…

April 2, 2019

CONSTRUCTION BEGINS AT BUCKTOWN MIXED USE DEVELOPMENT

Our plans include redeveloping the historic 29,000 square foot building into a mixed use space containing twenty residential apartments and ground floor commercial suites…

November 14, 2018— Chicago reader ‘Music’: Chicago gets its first vinyl-pressing plant in decades 

Chicago hasn't had a working vinyl-pressing plant for at least 20 years. The last one was allegedly shut down by the FBI in the 90s for making bootleg 78 RPM records to sell in India. The presses from that facility, acquired in 2003 by Chicagoan Joell Hays, sat dormant in a local warehouse after Hays failed to find investors to get his own plant up and running. By the time Quality Record Pressings, run by Chad Kassem in Salina, Kansas, bought them in 2015, the machines were in wretched shape—rusted, clogged, and missing parts. But such is the demand for vinyl that Kassem bought 13 of them.

Founded in 2011, QRP is one of a handful of new U.S. companies that have emerged to meet this increasing demand—the country has only about two dozen such operations, old and new. Independent artists now tend to wait at least six months for their vinyl orders—and that's if the test pressings turn out fine and nothing else goes wrong. Many a band has booked a record-release show and ended up with no records when the day arrives…

Photo: Adam Jason Cohen