Permits continue to be issued for The HUB Brooklyn, whose developers broke ground Nov. 14 on the restaurant, office and event space at 400 Riverside Ave.
The city issued a permit Dec. 2 for RPC General Contractors Inc. of Atlantic Beach to build the 1,142-square-foot shell building for the Alder & Oak restaurant at a contract cost of $510,000.
Mark Janasik, owner of Southern Grounds coffee shops, and Joe Cronk and Cliff Duch of Cronk Duch Architecture & Planning, are developing the project. They expect to open it in the fourth quarter of 2025.
The city previously issued permits that include the 1,615-square-foot Southern Grounds shell building.
The HUB Brooklyn tenant improvements would be under separate permits.
The 0.21-acre lot is at Riverside Avenue and Forest Street. The site is across from FIS headquarters and the Morgan & Morgan law offices, which are at 501 Riverside Ave.
Southern Grounds, the Sky Bar and Alder & Oak will anchor The HUB.
The Sky Bar will serve craft cocktails and small plates. Alder & Oak will feature wood-fired entrees.
Cronk Duch Architecture will move its offices to The HUB.
The HUB is meant to be a gathering spot. There are outdoor dining spaces and the event space will be available to the public.
The HUB will have multimodal transportation accessibility. In addition to customers traveling by vehicle, developers envision pedestrians, bicyclists and even boaters making The HUB a destination.