Jerry Kleiner, redux

Follow up to this post on Jerry Kleiner projects reveals a few more details about my neighborhood mogul.....from Chicago Mag

The indefatigable Jerry Kleiner (Saiko, Gioco, Opera, et al.) has got his hands in so many new projects that we can barely keep them all straight. Here, a primer on what he has going and when:

Concept: Chicago Illuminating Company, a corporate party facility in a rehabbed power plant
Location: 19 E. 21st St.; 312-326-9500 (South Loop)
ETA: Opened in November 2004 for wedding parties, artists, corporations
Kleiner: “It’s an unbelievable, overwhelming space. You could seat 350, or have 1,000 milling around.”

Concept: Unnamed late-night restaurant with a “lounge environment” in an old meat storage building
Location: 311 N. Sangamon St. (Fulton Market area)
ETA: Early March
Kleiner: “It will be an interesting, modern structure in an old freezer building.”

Concept: Still unnamed Latino restaurant
Location: 702 W. Fulton St. (the old Drink space)
ETA: March (we’re not sure what happened to his original estimation of November 2004)
Kleiner: “It’s moving along beautifully. But we don’t have a name yet.”

Concept: Unnamed American-Asian restaurant/lounge
Location: 5201 S. Harper Ave. (Hyde Park)
ETA: Starting construction in mid-February, with plans to open in late summer. (With Kleiner, this usually means fall.)
Kleiner: “It’ll be a full restaurant with a nice bar with booths where people in the community can come for a cocktail and dinner. There’s not much of that going on in Hyde Park.”

Concept: Unnamed restaurant in a 6,000-square-foot warehouse where Al Capone reportedly used to produce beer. Adjacent is a giant piece of vacant land that Kleiner envisions with a full, year-round garden.
Location: 2110 S. Wabash Ave. (next door to Chicago Illuminating Company)
ETA: The garden will open in the summer, the restaurant in the fall (“Next week I will have a full game plan for this space”).
Kleiner: “All I know for now is that when you walk in through French doors, the place will overlook this beautiful urban garden. It’s a beautiful canvas waiting to be painted.”