As reported on the blog yesterday, and again here, the brother and sister team planning to open a Bombers franchise in Troy has selected the building above, at 2 King St. Here’s more about the plans by Tami Dzembo and Glen Young:

It will cost between $600,000 and $700,000 to renovate the building, Dzembo said.

C2 Design and Architecture, the firm responsible for the renderings above and below, is designing the building, and also designed the Schenectady Bombers. That location is considered a model for future Bombers franchises, although Dzembo said each restaurant will have minor variations. The Troy restaurant, for example, will have the bar downstairs and the eating area upstairs, a reversal from other locations. That’s being done to place the outdoor patio, facing Federal Street, at the level of the bar.

The building is owned by Donald Boyajian, who also owns adjacent buildings from 4-10 King Street. Those buildings, considered unsafe, will almost certainly be torn down.

The buildings that once housed Cloud Nine, at 14 King, are for sale for $275,000, although the sale price seems to shift and the owner apparently hasn’t given up an effort to reopen the strip club.

Dzembo said Troy’s large student population makes it ideal for a Bombers.

Dzembo and Young considered other locations before finding the King Street building. They looked, for example, at a building at 215 River St., and also a building across the street from the old Proctors Theater on Fourth Street.

Dzembo and Young have been working on the Troy Bombers for three years. “It’s been a long road,” she said, adding that she hopes to get the restaurant open by October.