Creo restaurant, open for seven and a half years in a new Stuyvesant Plaza building on the longtime former site of the Italian restaurant Mangia, will close later this spring. The property is being sold and will be reincarnated as the second location of Jacob & Anthony’s, an Italian-influenced eatery owned by the locally based Marrello Restaurants & Catering. The original Jacob & Anthony’s, in Saratoga Springs, opened six years ago.

Owner Joe Marrello confirmed the plan for me this afternoon but cautioned that, while he has a letter of intent to buy the building, the deal is not finalized. He said he hopes to renovate the Creo space to allow for a quick-serve component similar his company’s Bellini’s Counter concept in addition to the table-service dining of the new Jacob & Anthony’s. (In related news, Marrello tells me a Bellini’s Counter location is being planned for a fall opening in new building that is part of Albany Medical Center’s Park South development.)

Several customers I’ve spoken to in recent days said they’ve been told about the closure by servers while dining at Creo. The date they were given was late May.

Brian White, of White Management, is quoted in a Business Review story as saying Creo has “run its course” and will close in early June. Marshall Morgan, Creo’s general manager, said he does not have a closing date and referred me to White; the telephone number for White Management’s corporate office is not being answered this afternoon by a person or voicemail.

This is the latest in a series of abrupt moves in recent years by White Managment as part of what appears to be a strategy of getting away from mid-priced and upscale dining. It expensively renovated Butcher Block in Colonie into Central Steak in 2010, then shuttered the new incarnation after less than two years; the building was recently razed. White Management suddenly closed its Mangia in Plattsburgh about a month before closing Central Steak. Café Mangia in Slingerlands closed in early 2015 after a quarter-century in business. The company still owns Bountiful Bread in Stuyvesant Plaza, The Log Jam in Lake George and the original Butcher Block, in Plattsburgh, as well as fast-food franchises.

Creo, in a pricey “green” building that was constructed in 2008, debuted under a dream team of chef Andrew Plummer and general manager Paul McCullough, both lured away from McGuire’s restaurant in Albany, and operations manager Mark Burgasser, who at that point had worked for White Management for 20 years. All left Creo within a few years.