{"id":242129,"date":"2026-07-13T10:51:57","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T10:51:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/242129\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T10:51:57","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T10:51:57","slug":"john-melody-and-russ-stachewicz-to-open-new-restaurant-in-erie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/242129\/","title":{"rendered":"John Melody and Russ Stachewicz to open new restaurant in Erie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>July 13, 2026, 5:05 a.m. ET<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Two of the most familiar names in the Erie restaurant business are planning a new high-profile location with ties to Erie&#8217;s manufacturing history.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Business partners John Melody and Russ Stachewicz, owners of six Erie-area restaurants and the former owners of Molly Brannigan&#8217;s, have been selected by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecrda.net\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-t-l=\":b|z|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Erie County Redevelopment Authority<\/a> to operate a new restaurant inside Ironworks Square, a $25 million redevelopment of the former Erie Malleable Iron Co. property on West 12th Street.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"July 13, 2026, 5:05 a.m. ET Two of the most familiar names in the Erie restaurant business are&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":242130,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[532,31069,136,138,137,539,82371,646,647,31068,1143,1844,4302,651,52994,542,1701,4301,1140,535],"class_list":["post-242129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-accesspremium","tag-clubs-nightlife","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-pa","tag-sourceerie-times-news","tag-sstsnewslocal","tag-sstsnlocal","tag-tagbars","tag-tagerie","tag-tagerie-county","tag-taglocal-affiliate-food","tag-taglocal-news","tag-tagmanufacturing-economy","tag-tagoverall-positive","tag-tagredevelopment","tag-tagrestaurants","tag-tagstory-highlights-ai-enabled","tag-typestory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242129","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=242129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242129\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}