Minnesota United FC, the professional soccer team to play at Allianz Field, isn’t the only new tenant coming to the Midway’s business and entertainment district.

The sale of Hot Rod’s Bar and Grill on University Avenue to David Tolchiner and Tolch Properties is on hold, but the developer is still promising visible changes along the block beginning as soon as Friday.

Tolchiner has been quietly acquiring properties on the north side of University Avenue between Snelling Avenue and Asbury Street since before the first Green Line trains rolled out in 2014. He expects to close on the purchase of Big V’s Saloon by Friday. It will remain open but re-branded as the Midway Saloon literally overnight.

Tolchiner is no stranger to the area. His father once operated Crazy Louie’s Surplus City and Museum on University Avenue in Frogtown, and he is a former proprietor of The Woolie faux finishing paint products, which occupied a neighboring space.

Here’s a quick tour through his plans for six adjoining properties:

• 1549 University Ave. W.: The 1920s-era Ashton Creative Arts Building has been home to Dress for Success, a nonprofit that prepares low-income women for the workforce, for several years. Tolchiner said a second nonprofit will soon move into the top floor of the three-story building, making it a mini-hub for nonprofits. Small Sums, which outfits homeless clients with the tools, uniforms, footwear and certifications they need in the workplace, is relocating from the Cheapo Records Landfill warehouse on University Avenue.

Site improvements are almost complete. “It’s a very cool space that we’re just about done with,” said Tolchiner, who also maintains his own office in the building.

Terre Thomas, executive director of Small Sums, said the new space will be almost 2,000 square feet, nearly double the 1,100 square feet the nonprofit currently occupies at the Cheapo Records site, which recently changed ownership. Small Sums, which served 559 people two years ago and will serve an anticipated 750 clients this year, had outgrown its existing space, she said. “It’s going to be big enough for us to serve 1,000 people,” said Thomas, who called the new rent reasonable and five-year lease reassuring. “We are heading in the right direction.”

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• 1553 University Ave. W.: Following more than one run-in with police and city inspectors, Hot Rod’s Bar and Grill closed several months ago and the property was put on the market. Tolchiner had hoped to resurrect the bar as an entertainment venue that would serve food and alcohol next to a 10-foot-tall Pac Man video game screen, pinball classics and retro arcade games.

The vacant lot between the bar and Big V’s/Midway Saloon would serve as outdoor seating for both properties.

The concept, tentatively dubbed Gibson’s, is on hold for now. A sale closing planned for late February didn’t happen, and the property owner has placed Hot Rod’s back on the market. Tolchiner declined to elaborate on the sticking points, other than to point out the site lacks parking and “it just didn’t come together as we had anticipated.”

“It doesn’t mean it’s off the table,” added Tolchiner, who is still hopeful he’ll be the buyer, eventually. “It just means that it is not happening concurrently with the new and improved Midway Saloon.”

• 1567 University Ave. W.: If a sale closing takes place this week as planned, Big V’s Saloon will be under new management come Friday for the first time in nearly 40 years. The longtime bar owners, Vic and Jeanne Masanz, have already posted their goodbyes on their website. The new Midway Saloon promises more cocktails and craft beer, and eventually hot meals.

The building, which dates to 1892, needs some work, but Tolchiner does not plan to the close the bar as immediate improvements move forward. If he can build a kitchen into the future patio space in the adjoining vacant lot, he may not have to shutdown at all.

“It’ll be a fairly quick transition,” Tolchiner said. “We are adding a kitchen. We’ll be expanding it come fall.”

• 1569 University Ave. W.: The former wig salon is now just an empty storefront, and Tolchiner said he is keeping plans for the two-story residential, retail and office building he acquired at the end of 2016 close to the vest for at least a few more days. Interior improvements are underway, including a new paint job. “We’re actually picking colors today,” he said.

• 1573 University Ave. W.: Built in 1905, the two-story building bordering Midway Book Store near Snelling Avenue has been home to a law firm for 18 years. Tolchiner said he’s within 60 to 90 days of buying the site and switching up tenants. Exactly what the new tenant mix will be remains under wraps.

Tolchiner isn’t the only entrepreneur with his eyes on the blocks north of Allianz Field. On Saturday, St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter is scheduled to join bar owner Wes Burdine for the official grand opening of the Black Hart of St. Paul. The bar at 1415 University Ave. W., formerly known as the Townhouse Bar, plans a full day of activities.