Project Address/Location:
645 Hennepin Ave.
Minneapolis, MN 55403

Project Category: Restaurant

Product Category: Stone

Project Manager: Guido Gliori

Contractor: International Contractors, Inc. Elmhurst, Illinois

Architect: Shea, Inc.

Project Size: 2600 square feet

Product Used: Vetter Limestone

Absolute Black Granite

Man Hours for Completion: 2380 hours

Located in the heart of Minneapolis’ entertainment district you will find the hip new restaurant Fogo de Chão. Its elegant open design is beautifully accented with limestone and granite dimensional stone cladding. The sleek clean design was anything but simple to create. An accelerated completion scheduled required Grazzini Brothers to think outside of the box. Waiting for the stone to arrive from Italy would have meant missing the contractor’s completion date. Creative thinking and problem solving was the only solution. The newly acquired CNC machine allowed Grazzini to create shop drawings, fabrication and installation cut tickets in-house. The project was completed on time and on budget.