After a landlord-tenant dispute sent Galloway Station packing from its longtime Galloway Village home, the owners are now trucking the restaurant and bar equipment to new digs.
Galloway Station owners Emi and Klaus Greinke have signed a one-year lease with Jared Properties for a building more than double in size three miles immediately west of Galloway Station’s home since 1995.
Emi Greinke called the lease deal at 1281 E. Republic Road a short-term solution, while she considers a land purchase in south Springfield to possibly construct a new building for Galloway Station.
“Our plans are to build,” she said. “We’ll just see what happens.”
Greinke said three years of negotiations to purchase or renew the lease at 4211 S. Lone Pine Ave. came to an abrupt end when landlord Ron’s Properties LLC turned down a $300,000 purchase offer and declined to extend the lease. The Greinkes bought the restaurant and bar operations in 2003, and there had been tension during the years regarding various structural repairs of the two buildings on the property, which sits along the Galloway trail popular among bikers and joggers.
“It needed a lot of fixing,” she added. “We didn’t want to dump a lot of money into the building if it wasn’t ours.”
Galloway Station’s last day operating on Lone Pine was April 29, and the staff is currently moving tables, chairs and kitchen equipment to the roughly 7,000-square-foot building on Republic Road that’s been vacant since December. Greinke said she hopes to reopen by the end of May.
“It’s just been taking us a long time to move everything out,” she said.
Curtis Jared said Tier 3, a music club, was the previous tenant of the three-story building that resembles a barn. Jared Properties bought the property three years ago, and it had a 2013 taxable appraised value of $427,000, according to Greene County assessor records.
“We worked out a short-term deal,” Jared said, “to give them time to figure out what they want to do.”
Both parties declined to disclose lease terms, and Greinke indicated the rate was favorable given Galloway Station’s sudden need.
“Before Curtis came around, we thought we were going to be closed for several months,” she said, noting negotiations were smooth between Jared and her real estate agent, Mark Patrick of Coldwell Banker Vanguard.
Greinke, a native of Greece, described the process as emotional but understands it’s part of doing business.
“We just live down the street. We wanted to stay at that location,” she said. “Until the end, we felt (landlord Ron McCracken) was going to renew it or extend it.
“It’s just business. The landlord has to do whatever he’s got to do.”
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