The old Bistro Market building in downtown Springfield will soon take on a new role.

The empty space, on South Avenue and Walnut Street, will soon be transformed into the city's first, upscale food hall called Blackwell Hall.

"It's important that we bring different food styles to downtown," co-owner Joshua Widner said.

The European-style food hall will have 12 different vendors with a seating area and an outdoor patio.

"You have a choice of 10 or 11 things and you grab what you want everyone can get different things," co-owner Jim Wilson said.

The concept is to have new food items and seasonal menus with pop-up spaces that would change every few months.

"Taco places, we're currently looking at ramen places, a really cool pizza place situation, a farm stand, a bagel shop a small package and bar store, stuff like that," Widner said.

The masterminds behind the project Joshua Widner and Jim Wilson said this type of dining makes it convenient for customers.

"The ability to have large groups come in and have different food styles all in one venue is really unique which is really awesome same thing," Widner said. "With deliveries, we're trying to figure out a delivery situation where these housing units downtown and these big office complexes can have one delivery with multiple food styles if you have 15 or 20 people with 8 different things we can do that which is really cool."

The owners hope to have Blackwell Hall open in late October. It will be open from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. six days a week

So far this is the list vendors they have planned for the space:

Starbucks

Full service, high-end restaurant

Frozen custard

Variety of ethnic and other cuisines such as tacos, Indian, Asian, ramen, etc.

Gourmet sandwich/deli and retail

Pizza owned and operated by Chef Clinton McCann

Bar and package store similar to Cherry Picker Package x Fare owned and operated by Good Spirits Concepts

Fresh produce sourced from local farms

Bagel shop

The owners are still looking for retailers interested in trying out the downtown Springfield market.

The two owners will also be opening a downtown beer bar on Jefferson Avenue.