The owner of Parkview Food and Pub in Bloomington, Illinois, will start rebuilding the historic Route 66 restaurant after a fire destroyed it in 2016 and go back to its original name, Parkview Inn.
The Bloomington Pantagraph talked to Rick McCormick, owner of the restaurant that once stood near Miller Park since 1928:
“Hopefully, it warms up enough and the ground thaws out a little bit. Hopefully, by the end of this week or next week we’ll start digging,” said McCormick. “We’re hoping to be open by July. We’re shooting for a three-or four-month turnaround, but we’ll see.” […]
“We’re going back to the original name. It’s going to be the Parkview Inn,” he said, adding the restaurant’s longtime customers and others continue to call him to ask him when he planned to reopen. […]
“We’re still going to do breakfast, lunch and dinner Monday through Sunday, closing the kitchen at 2 in the afternoon on Sundays with the bar staying open,” he said. “We’re going to do it the exact same way we did before.”