The owners of Wolff’s Biergarten, which recently celebrated its fifth anniversary in Albany’s warehouse district, have signed a lease and plan to open a Schenectady location of Wolff’s in the fall.

The address is 165 Erie Blvd., a space that formerly was home to Kem Cleaners and is next door to an old firehouse. (Wolff’s-Albany is in a former firehouse.) The principal owner is Matt Baumgartner, who is the majority stakeholder in Wolff’s-Albany and also owns Bombers Burrito Bar in Albany and Schenectady and co-owns Sciortini’s Pizzeria and The Olde English Pub & Pantry, both in Albany. Baumgartner’s partners in Wolff’s-Schenectady are Mark Graydon, who is general manager of the Albany Wolff’s and a partner in The Olde English, and Graydon’s wife, Greta. Graydon will supervise the Schenectady location but plans to hire a manager so he can continue to run and work the daytime bar at Wolff’s-Albany.

Graydon tells me the Schenectady Wolff’s will feature most of the same elements of the Albany original, including German beer and counter-service German food, garage doors at the front, long bar, picnic tables, baskets of peanuts and peanut shells on the floor, and TVs showing international soccer matches. The principal differences will be the layout — the Schenectady space is wide horizontally while Albany is narrow but deep — and a larger draft line in Schenectady, still largely dominated by German brews but with a half-dozen American craft beers.

Given the significant renovation required, Graydon says the partners decided not to rush work to try to be open for the World Cup, which starts in June. World Cup promotions and festivities will run throughout the tournament at Wolff’s-Albany.