Redevelopment plans for the oldest remaining fire station in St. Paul are coming to fruition, with a high-end wine bar announced for the site.

Brody Nordland and Chelsea Kaeding, who have backgrounds in hotel development and are lovers and collectors of wine, plan to open Firehouse Wine Bar (1 S. Leech St.; St. Paul) in the historic structure on Leech Street and Grand Avenue.

“We’re focused on being Minneapolis’ and St. Paul’s only selection of high-end West Coast wines,” Kaeding said. “We’ll focus solely on West Coast California wines. We want to make this approachable where someone might go out and buy a $150 bottle of wine and can get it here by the glass.”

For food, mainly cheese and meat boards will be available on site. The duo also plan to partner with area establishments. “We’re going to allow people to order in food from local restaurants. We’re working with local restaurants to put pairings together where (guests) can have food delivered,” Nordland said.

The property near United and Children’s hospitals was slated to be razed for a 109-room Marriott hotel.

After working with the city and community members, developers tweaked the hotel blueprint to include redeveloping the historic firehouse on the site for another use. A deal was reached that includes a $500,000 forgivable loan from the city’s Housing and Redevelopment Authority to aid developers in costs that come with changing the building plans to accommodate both a hotel and firehouse on the property.

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New eateries set up shop at malls around the metro Nordland and Kaeding, who are not part of the hotel development, will run the wine bar out of the former firehouse, which will be developed independently but in tandem with the hotel project.

“It’s a beautiful historic building,” Nordland said. “We’re maintaining as much of the original material as possible.”