Town of St. Louis is about to welcome a brand new and improved Sweetie Pie’s restaurant months after shutting the doorways on its final location and seeing one of many members of the family-run enterprise get sentenced to life in jail.
Sweetie Pie’s 2nd Act is coming to north St. Louis at Kingshighway Boulevard and Dr. Martin Luther King Drive after closing its earlier location final fall, KMOV reviews. Builders engaged on the brand new location submitted plans to the town’s Land Clearance for Improvement Authority on Tuesday, Might 23.
Proprietor Robbie Montgomery has plans of investing $3.7 million into the venture and creating round 25 jobs for locals. The brand new location will sit throughout from the City League of Metropolitan St. Louis and embody a 160-seat eating space and two occasion areas.
“It’ll be a spot the place folks can simply–not simply get to-go orders, but in addition sit down, lease out area. We would like it to be top-notch,” Michael Holmes, a consultant for the financial growth department of City League stated.
“We additionally need to be a instrument for redevelopment for all the space, which might be a part of north St. Louis. ArchWell [Health] has are available in. We’re wanting so as to add extra shops.”
The brand new location may very well be the resurrection of Sweetie Pie’s after the beloved soul meals restaurant was rocked by a disturbing insurance coverage rip-off scandal involving Montgomery’s son Tim Norman. In March, Norman was sentenced to life in jail for the murder-for-hire in opposition to his nephew, Andre Montgomery Jr in 2016.
The sentencing got here three years after Norman was first accused of being the mastermind behind his nephew’s dying. Court docket paperwork present Norman took out a life insurance coverage coverage on Andre for $450,000 in 2014, two years earlier than his dying.
In September 2022, Norman was discovered responsible on all costs, together with conspiracy to commit murder-for-hire, murder-for-hire leading to dying, and mail fraud, KSDK reviews. The household gained fame on the fact TV present “Welcome to Sweetie Pie’s” on the Oprah Winfrey Community.
That is the third location for Sweetie Pie’s after the situation on the Mangrove in The Grove space closed down in July 2016, and the unique location at 981 W Florissant Ave. in Dellwood closed final 12 months.
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