A third restaurant in under five years will soon move into the former ticket lobby of Union Depot in downtown St. Paul’s Lowertown.

Kaskaid Hospitality, which has operated Union Depot Bar and Grill in the space since July 2018, will subcontract with Minneapolis-based Appetite for Change to take over the venue, according to county documents.

Bloomington-based Kaskaid, which is known for such Minneapolis eateries as Crave and Union Rooftop Bar and Grill, reported that “restaurant and catering revenues have not achieved original projections,” county documents say.

Kaskaid agreed to take over the space in 2016 after Ramsey County opted not to renew its lease with Christos, the Mediterranean restaurant that had operated in the depot for 20 years. Kaskaid opened Union Depot Bar and Grill more than two years later, after the county spent $2 million renovating the space.

Appetite for Change, a nonprofit that runs Breaking Bread Cafe in North Minneapolis, plans to reopen the Union Depot space as Station 81 in December.

Appetite for Change focuses “on use of organic and locally grown food with urban gardening and sustainable practices,” Ramsey County documents say. The new restaurant will offer a large number of vegan and vegetarian menu options and on- and off-site catering.

Like Kaskaid, Appetite for Change will pay Ramsey County a 3 percent commission on restaurant sales and 10 percent on on-site catering revenue from events at the depot. However, Appetite for Change will pay 3 percent on off-site event catering revenue, rather than the 7 percent Kaskaid paid.

Appetite for Change and Kaskaid would both be preferred caterers for events of more than 400 people, but they will not be exclusive caterers for those events.

Mostly shuttered since the late 1970s, Union Depot underwent a two-year, $243 million renovation that wrapped up in 2012, which forced Christos to shut down for about five months. Since the 1923 landmark reopened as a transportation hub, foot traffic has frequently been light.

In addition to the restaurant space, the building is home to privately owned condominiums, a coffee shop, offices and some retail space. The transit hub hosts two daily Amtrak trains operating between Chicago and the Pacific Northwest, as well as local and regional bus services. Metro Transit’s Green Line light rail stops outside on Fourth Street.

The St. Paul Farmers Market announced in October that it will host a weekday year-round market inside the depot, whose management has sought to use its spaces for various events, both public and private.

Frederick Melo contributed to this report.