Boutique hospitality developer Jayson Seidman is planning to bring the long-vacant SnoWizard sno-ball stand on Magazine Street back to life as an all-day cafe with indoor and outdoor seating.
Seidman’s vision for the property at the corner of Magazine and Constantinople streets involves converting the 1,500-square-foot building into a dining room that seats around 30 and transforming the parking area into more than 1,600 square feet of open-air dining. He also plans to retain the refurbished sno-ball-shaped neon ornamentations from the SnoWizard’s on the building’s exterior.
“We want to pay respect to what was there,” said Seidman, a co-developer of Hotel Saint Vincent and the operator of the Columns Hotel and Hotel Henrietta. “For us, it’s embracing the funkiness and quirkiness in terms of the architecture and design.”
In recent months, Seidman has filed his plans with the city and finalized a lease for the site with its long-time owners…