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BM&T Management, which owns a variety of Albany bars and restaurants including The Point, Junior’s and Café Madison, all in the Pine Hills neighborhood, has signed a deal to take over the former home of Carmine’s Restaurant at 4 Sheridan Ave. in downtown Albany. The company has a five-year lease, with two five-year renewal options, with building owner Guy Alonge.

Brian Viglucci of BM&T tells me he and his partners — his father, Michael, and Tony Lounello — have not yet decided on what type of restaurant they will open.

“We really want it to be something different, something the area doesn’t have,” Viglucci tells me. He says they plan to travel to visit different concepts before deciding. They welcome public input, which you may file as a comment on this post and/or by voting in the poll below, with answers chosen from among reader suggestions when I asked last month what you would like to see take over the space. The lease stipulates an 11:30 p.m. closing, meaning the restaurant will not cater to the late-night crowd that gathers around the corner on North Pearl Street.

BM&T will renovate the facade, likely with large, walk-through windows or French doors, to better integrate the sidewalk seating area into the restaurant space; depending on the final concept, the interior will be opened up to make it one cohesive area instead of a bar with a dining room hidden behind it.

BM&T opened its most recent business, Madison Pourhouse, in early February. Construction should begin in the coming weeks on yet another project from the company, a brew-centric tavern and retail store called The Beer Belly on New Scotland Avenue. A summer opening is forecast for The Beer Belly.

What type of restaurant or other business would you like to see open in the former Carmine's space downtown? (Pick up to 3.) Spanish/tapas

Upscale Mexican

Sushi

Italian

A downtown version of Café Madison for quality breakfast and lunch

Gourmet/specialty grocer

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