LAVAZZA – MetraMarket signs Italian coffee cafe

MILAN – An Italian coffee company will lease 2,045 square feet at MetraMarket for a café, replacing Caffe RoM, a Chicago coffee bar that had previously planned a larger location. Turin, Italy-based Lavazza plans to open the Espression by Lavazza café this fall, according to U.s. Equities Realty Llc, which is developing MetraMarket, a 100,000-square-foot restaurant and retail center within the Ogilvie Transportation Center in the West Loop. Lavazza has other Chicago locations, including one in the John Hancock Observatory.

Lavazza is taking different space at MetraMarket than Caffe RoM, which had planned a 2,900-square-foot coffee bar. Caffe RoM made a decision not to expand now, a U.S. Equities spokeswoman says. MetraMarket’s other tenants are the 15,000-square-foot French Market, which is to sell baked goods, fresh produce, meat, fish and other items, and a 14,000-square-foot CVS drugstore.