Several weeks ago, the Red Brick District blog mentioned the fact that the beautiful four story brick building that housed the former Brownstone on Main restaurant was up for auction. An anonymous source let me know today that the building sold to the owner of the Ohio Lofts located right across the street and he has plans to repopulate the ground floor of the building with another restaurant concept. It doesn’t sound like it will be brought back as “The Brownstone on Main”, but a similar type of restaurant could be in store.
If the rumors turn out to be true, I’d expect something new there to be able to be open for business fairly quickly. Judging from the auction photos, it look like the past owners left pretty much everything intact when they vacated the building: