Charcoal Delights renovation to get financial boost from Des Plaines

The renovation of an enduring relatives-owned restaurant in Des Plaines is set to get a money boost from the metropolis.

Charcoal Delights, 1090 E. Oakton St., will get a $15,000 organization-assistance grant to enable fund an interior renovation, the town council made the decision Monday.

The unanimous decision came about two a long time after the restaurant been given $28,474 from Des Plaines for exterior enhancements.

Charcoal Delights is owned by members of the Katsis family members. They have been serving hot dogs, gyros, burgers and extra at the Des Plaines site since 1995 and even longer at an identically named cafe on Foster Avenue in Chicago. The Katsises have proposed paying out a lot more than $80,000 to renovate the dining place at the Des Plaines site. New tables and booths, strength-productive lights and new countertops are among the proposed enhancements, town paperwork suggest.

“We’re enthusiastic to produce a improved eating ambiance for our buyers,” co-proprietor Demetri Katsis mentioned.

Katsis reported he hopes the task will assistance provide a fresh search to that element of Des Plaines, which is the emphasis of redevelopment plans at town corridor.

City officials spoke enthusiastically about Charcoal Delights, its house owners and the renovation ideas all through Monday’s meeting. Mayor Andrew Goczkowski praised Charcoal Delights for “investing in the neighborhood in a pretty actual way.”

The business enterprise assistance method has a $250,000 yearly spending budget. In advance of Monday’s conference, only 1 grant of $10,000 had been awarded this 12 months, Group and Financial Enhancement Director John T. Carlisle claimed, and no income has been shipped nevertheless.

The metropolis offers several kinds of business enterprise grants, including types for awnings, out of doors dining places, inside advancements and facade enhancements.

Enterprises are restricted to one particular grant in each individual classification. Interior create-out grants permit enterprises to be reimbursed for up to 50% of design expenditures. The grant cap commonly is $15,000.

The $28,474 the Katsises gained from the town in 2019 arrived from the cash for awning, facade and out of doors seating improvements, paperwork show.

Interior design could start out by the end of the thirty day period, Katsis reported. The eating home will near for one 7 days in April to accommodate the operate. During that time, only travel-through and pickup orders will be accessible, Katsis reported.

Katsis hopes the job will wrap up by late May perhaps.