GRAND RAPIDS, MI - The owners of Jolly Pumpkin Artisan Ales are still planning to bring the Dexter-based brand to Bridge Street on the city's West Side - but their plans have changed in the past year.

Instead of renovating the former Red Lion restaurant at 449 Bridge St. NW, the brewery's owners now want to open a Jolly Pumpkin across the street in the former Black Heron Kitchen & Bar at 428 Bridge St. NW.

Northern United Brewing Co. managing partner Jon Carlson confirmed the company's plans for a Jolly Pumpkin at 428 Bridge St.

The Black Heron abruptly closed in June about a week after a car crashed through its window. Renovation permits for the building have been filed with the city planning department.

Northern United has not yet requested to brew beer at 428 Bridge St., which would require special land use approval, according to city planning staff.

The fate of the Red Lion property is still in the hands of Carlson and his business partner, Greg Lobdell.

The duo is planning to tear down the Red Lion building and construct a five story mixed-use building in its place and on top of the adjacent parking lot, according to documents filed with the city's planning commission.

A restaurant is proposed in the first floor of the building, and residential space would fill the upper floors, documents show.

This week Carlson said the building at 449 Bridge St. would not be a part of Northern United Brewing Co.

Carlson said the concept for the restaurant at 449 Bridge would be called "North Cookshop."

The proposed building would cover 449 Bridge, as well as the adjacent parcels at 453, 457 and 499 Bridge. All are owned by 449 Bridge Street Redevelopment LLC, of which Lobdell is the owner.

The building proposal will be before the planning commission at its Nov. 9 meeting.

For Jolly Pumpkin, the project would be the first expansion of the brand into Grand Rapids. Jolly Pumpkin so far has expanded beyond its Dexter taproom and Ann Arbor pub to Traverse City, Royal Oak, Detroit and Chicago.

Bridge Street properties have been overturning into new restaurants, with at least three recent openings: New Holland Brewing's Knickerbocker, Sovengard and Butcher's Union.

The burgeoning street will be soon be home to Meijer's small-concept grocery store as a part of the super block at Bridge Street and Seward.

Several weeks after the groundbreaking of Meijer's Bridge Street Market, Duthler's Family Foods on the next block announced it would be closing.