{"id":25339,"date":"2025-04-16T19:41:44","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T23:41:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/?p=25339"},"modified":"2025-04-16T19:41:46","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T23:41:46","slug":"grainery-to-rebuild-at-site-of-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/16\/grainery-to-rebuild-at-site-of-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Grainery to rebuild at site of fire"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By BOB SHRALUKA<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>WZBD.com<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Grainery Company, leveled by a December 7 fire, will be rebuilt in its longtime First St. location in Decatur, co-owner Josh Franz has announced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The site \u2013 located between Monroe and Jackson streets \u2013 has been cleared of most fire remnants, Franz said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So Josh and his mother, Marge, are planning to erect a temporary greenhouse and tent at the site of the former greenhouse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/GRainery-fence.jpg?resize=640%2C480&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-25340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/GRainery-fence.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/GRainery-fence.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/GRainery-fence.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/GRainery-fence.jpg?w=1135&amp;ssl=1 1135w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMaybe not yet this week, but hopefully next week,\u201d he told WZBD.com. \u201cWe are looking forward to the spring planting season.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Franz said it is hoped that the rebuild can begin in the fall. \u201cA lot depends on permitting,\u201d he noted. \u201cI&#8217;ve talked to the builder and he said the big thing is state permits.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since a short time after the fire, the company has been functioning in a limited capacity in the first building to its south, which is where it first began operations over 30 years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Grainery was launched after Josh&#8217;s parents, Marge and the late Ron Franz, purchased the Legge Elevator from George Fuelling in 1995.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The building had been used as a warehouse in recent years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By BOB SHRALUKA WZBD.com The Grainery Company, leveled by a December 7 fire, will be rebuilt in its<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[14,15,21],"class_list":["post-25339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-decatur","tag-featured","tag-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25339"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25341,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25339\/revisions\/25341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}