Don’t Miss This: New restaurant, brewery halfway complete in Belleville

Don’t miss these stories Wednesday at BND.com:

▪ The Hofbräuhaus building in Belleville is over 50 percent complete, a spokesman for the developers announced Tuesday.

Construction on the restaurant and brewery off Illinois 15 across from the National Shrine of Our Lady of the Snows began late last year. The value of the fully furnished building is estimated to be about $10 million.

Fairview Heights-based IMPACT Strategies Inc. is building the 31,000-square-foot restaurant, which would be the largest of the seven Hofbräuhaus restaurants in North America.

▪ Individuals and groups will no longer be allowed to solicit donations outside area Schnucks stores, the company said Tuesday.

According to a statement from the St. Louis-based grocer, “We have decided to end the solicitation of our customers or distribution of written or other materials at our stores.”

Bell-ringing Salvation Army Santas and Girl Scouts selling cookies were among the most visible organizations seen outside stores.

▪ A man is facing multiple drug charges after authorities said they found Xanax pills, heroin, cannabis and 27 grams of crystal methamphetamine inside a Swansea mobile home.

Swansea Police Department identified the suspect as 23-year-old Alex D. Rogers. The St. Clair County State’s Attorney’s Office charged Rogers on Thursday with three counts of unlawful delivery of methamphetamine, possession with intent to deliver, unlawful possession of heroin and endangering the life of a child.

Rogers was taken to the county jail, and his bail was set at $75,000.

This story was originally published August 24, 2016 at 6:45 AM with the headline "Don’t Miss This: New restaurant, brewery halfway complete in Belleville."