Pizitz' food incubator will bring several ethnic food concepts to Birmingham, filling in gaps in the city's food scene.

The "Food Hall" will be an incubator for up-and-coming chefs to showcase culinary trends. One stall will rotate quarterly.

Concepts will include an Ethiopian restaurant, an Asian dumpling concept and a Korean restaurant featuring bibimbap, which is a bowl of rice topped with sauteed vegetables and Korean sauces, Bayer Properties confirmed. Domestique Coffee, a local coffee roaster, and Lichita's, which sells ice cream and paletas (Mexican ice pops), will also open in the hall.

Bayer is renovating the Pizitz building at 2nd Avenue North and 19th Street. The $66 million project will have 143 apartments and 11,000 square feet of office space. The residential portion is scheduled to open in the fall.

The Pizitz building went up in 1923, originally housing the Pizitz department store, which closed in 1988. Construction on the project started a year ago.

Bayer worked with the local food blog What to Eat in Birmingham to identify concepts and food entrepreneurs.

Rule Joy Trammel + Rubio is the Food Hall's architect. The same firm designed Krog Street Market in Atlanta.