Landmark of Schenectady's Little Italy to add bakery-cafe Friday, May 15, 2009 By Michael Lamendola (Contact) Gazette Reporter
SCHENECTADY — Schenectady’s Little Italy is getting more of a good thing — More Perreca’s, that is. Maria Perreca-Papa plans to open a bakery-cafe called More Perreca’s at 31 North Jay St. The same building houses Perecca’s Italian Bakery, the family-owned business and Little Italy landmark. The Papa family has operated Perreca’s Italian Bakery there since 1913. “The time is ripe. Bakery cafes with this economy are doing very well,” Perreca-Papa said. Perreca-Papa expects to open for business Sept. 12, the date of the annual Little Italy Street Festival. “The buzz has already begun, and I’ve got to say everyone is being so supportive. It warms the cockles of my heart,” she said. Perreca-Papa bought the three-story, 4,400-square-foot-building late last year and has been renovating it since. “We took out 11 30-yard Dumpsters,” she said. Perreca’s was a tenant in the building, which had housed a different bakery but has been empty except for Perreca’s for at least 10 years. Portions of it are boarded up. It sits near the entrance to Little Italy, coming from Union Street. More Perreca’s will occupy a section of the first floor and offer outside seating. The building’s second and third floors will contain two apartments each.........>>>>>>>>............http://www.dailygazette.com/news/2009/may/15/0515_bakery/
Won't this be right across from Civitello's? (I think that's the name of it) The one with the great italian ice. They sell baked goods also, don't they?
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