A new restaurant, bar may be coming soon to site of former popular Belleville tavern

After more than three years, there may soon be some activity at a former longtime bar in Belleville. Applications for rezoning and special use permits were submitted to the City of Belleville for the building at 2301 E. Main St. You may know it better as Schatze’s. Since the bar’s closure in January 2021 after nearly 29 years of business, the property remained vacant. Applications submitted to the city on May 3 by Venkata S. Barla included a request to rezone the site from a Single Family Residence District to...