The former North Face clothing store at 799 Grand Ave. in St. Paul would be leveled. The Brasa Premium Rotisserie would bid its goodbyes. In their place, retail and restaurant space would be replaced by a new Lunds & Byerlys grocery, as well as 69 units of housing.

On Monday, Lunds & Byerlys officials presented two alternate conceptual designs for a five-level building to a packed audience at Mt. Zion Temple on Summit Avenue. The plans call for four levels of apartments above a new grocery, spanning 24,000 square feet, as well as two levels of underground parking.

Tres Lund, whose grandfather got his start in the Twin Cities grocery business in the 1920s, said the Edina-based company has plenty of experience fitting into tight urban corners such as Uptown or Northeast Minneapolis. Both designs incorporate cornices, wrought iron, chimney points or other elements currently found along the avenue, with the goal of being sensitive to existing architecture.

North Face exited both Grand Avenue and Uptown in recent months, leaving a 17,000 square foot vacancy in St. Paul. The property, at Grand and Avon Street, is currently owned by the State Teachers Retirement System of Ohio. Lunds & Byerlys already owns the Brasa building. Punch Pizza and the properties toward the east end of the block are not part of the proposed development area.

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Tres Lund said a groundbreaking date has not yet been scheduled and is contingent on community feedback. The site was previously a Knowlan’s grocery until 1997, and before that was known as Rooney’s, and before that Klein’s.