COLONIE — BMT Hospitality, the Albany restaurant company with brands including Junior’s Bar & Grill and Cafe Madison, has taken over the former Everett Road location of Swifty’s Pub and will open a restaurant there.
John Dollard, BMT’s director of restaurants, was out of town on Thursday but confirmed in a brief text exchange that the company has signed a lease for 95 Everett Road and begun renovation. He said the company has not decided whether it will become another Junior’s or a new concept. Brian Viglucci, BMT co-founder and managing partner, did not reply to an interview request Thursday evening.
The Everett Road building has been vacant since April, when its former tenant, Swifty’s Restaurant & Pub, closed abruptly as part of a financial collapse that began when the company was seized in December for about $2.2 million in unpaid sales and withholding taxes. All three Swifty’s — in Colonie, Utica and the Delmar original — then permanently closed…