{"id":125502,"date":"2026-02-27T22:23:26","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T22:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/125502\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T22:23:26","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T22:23:26","slug":"cafe-in-erie-county-courthouse-set-to-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/125502\/","title":{"rendered":"Cafe in Erie County Courthouse set to return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The future of the courthouse cafe space in the Erie County Courthouse is now up for discussion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The space was originally cleared out under the former administration, with plans to convert it into an employee gym, but that never materialized.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Now, county leaders said they\u2019re re-evaluating what is going to happen with that space.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The former courthouse cafe operated for years in the basement of the Erie County Courthouse before it was removed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.yourerie.com\/news\/local-news\/former-erie-county-courthouse-cafe-remains-in-limbo-after-nearly-two-year-closure\/?ipid=promo-link-block1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Former Erie County Courthouse cafe remains in limbo after nearly two-year closure;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\"> Former Erie County Courthouse cafe remains in limbo after nearly two-year closure <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The space has been largely unused, being used solely for employee seating.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Now the current administration said they are reverting it back to a cafe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cWe\u2019re planning to put the cafe back in there. The cafe was in there four years ago. And so it\u2019s pretty much gonna be the same layout for a cafe that serves breakfast and lunch primarily,\u201d said Ann Villella, director of human resources.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The courthouse is currently reviewing some proposals by vendors to see who will operate the space.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The original courthouse cafe was run and operated by Erie local chef Lisa Heidelberg, owner of Dinner Is Served by Lisa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yourerie.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WJET\/WFXP\/YourErie.com.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WJET\/WFXP\/YourErie.com. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The future of the courthouse cafe space in the Erie County Courthouse is now up for discussion. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":125503,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[58718,136,13086,138,137],"class_list":["post-125502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-courthouse-cafe","tag-erie","tag-erie-county-courthouse","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125502\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}