3-story bar, restaurant to open on State Street

A restaurant with a bar on each of its three floors is slated to open sometime next month in West Lafayette.

Owner Shane O’Malley, who also owns Chauncey Hill Apartments, couldn’t comment on specific details about the restaurant but said it will most likely be named Three O Eight.

The 10,000-square-foot facility will receive $500,000 in upgrades by the time it’s finished, according to a construction permit obtained by the Journal & Courier.

The restaurant will have “three different eating and drinking establishments,” West Lafayette deputy building commissioner Jason Burks said Friday. “One on each floor.”

Burks said an elevator will join the three floors.

Construction at 308 W. State St. began late last year as workers updated infrastructure in the building between Orange Leaf and Brothers Bar and Grill to bring it up to fire code.

It’s good that a business is filling the vacant spot in West Lafayette, Burks said, but it’s even better that the building is no longer a hazard.

“We feel the building was much safer than it was in the past,” Burks said.