New Brewery, Drive-Thru Restaurants Coming To Batavia

BATAVIA, IL — Several new developments are coming to Batavia, including a new brewery, two drive-thru favorites and a gas station. Batavia Mayor Jeffery Schielke announced the developments in a community update on YouTube Jan. 28.

A Mobil gas station, located at 2074 Main Street, is among projects in the works. The current station will be torn down and replaced with Casey's Market, which Schielke said he thinks will excite many people.

"I'm thinking that's going to be very attractive," Schielke said of the future gas station. "They will sell the gas as all Casey's do, but they have a very large convenience center with a lot of prepackaged vegetables and other types of foods."

Down the street, new Starbucks and Chipotle locations will open at 1994 McKee Street, across from Raising Cane's. Both businesses will have drive-thru lanes.

Schielke said construction is underway at the site where the two popular restaurants will be located, and he said both should be open "a year from now."

Batavia will also soon be home to a new brewery. The site of the former Kluber Architects and Engineers office, at 10 Shumway Ave., has been purchased and will be remodeled into Sturdy Shelter Brewing, Schielke announced.

"It's going to have a deck over the back of the building so people will be able to sit out and have some refreshments and look at the Fox River," he said in the video. "I met with the owners and they've very nice people and they have some neat ideas to bring to downtown Batavia."

Before the historic building was an architecture office, it housed a single-screen movie theater, according to Schielke.

"We're kind of reclaiming old historic buildings for new uses and I think there's a very positive spin in that," he said.