After a yearlong, multimillion-dollar renovation of the former Sondik Supply building at 716 Pine Street, the staff of Lake Champlain Chocolates will unveil their bold new culinary center next week.
The colorful, 45-seat South End Kitchen at Lake Champlain Chocolates — bedecked in golden-rod tiles, filled with wooden tables and adorned with a stone hearth — anchors the 8,500-square-foot space. It’s flanked on either side by an airy education kitchen and a glassed-in production area for Blue Bandana Chocolate Maker.
“It’s a unique space, and it was fun to take an old warehouse” and transform it, said Jim Lampman, LCC’s founder, who worked closely with his son, Eric, and architect John Anderson on the project. Architect Donna Church of studioblue Architecture created the design, which was partly funded by $1.3 million in financing from the Vermont Economic Development Authority.
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It wasn’t all that long ago that Pine Street was a post industrial brownfield. I really have to hand it to all of the businesses and property owners who have transformed it into a cultural destination.
The price of the classes is a deal-breaker. No thanks.