The former site of Black Cat Ice Cream on Cottage Grove Avenue will be redeveloped into a mixed-used building with commercial space on the ground floor and residential on the second, said the developer behind the project.
The ice cream shop closed its operation at 2511 Cottage Grove Ave. last year because of structural issues with the building. In early December, Black Cat opened a shop on Locust Street downtown. Earlier, it had opened a store in Valley Junction in West Des Moines.
According to city documents, a demolition permit for the Cottage Grove building was approved on Jan. 21. A pre-application meeting with the developer, DEV Partners, was scheduled for Jan. 20, documents show…