Committeewoman Cara Jensen

Sweetie Pie’s Restaurant in St. Louis will add another location and create 59 new jobs thanks to $425,227 in state incentives Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon announced Wednesday.

The Brownfield Redevelopment Incentives will help Sweetie Pie’s owner Robbie Montgomery clean up an abandoned building at 3643 Delmar Blvd. and convert it into her third restaurant. The Delmar property, which is contaminated with lead paint and asbestos, will be renovated to house a new restaurant and bakery, called Sweetie Pie’s Upper Crust, that will offer breakfast, banquet and meeting space, and separate bakery sales. Sweetie Pie’s current locations lack the space necessary for these additional services.

Nixon, along with state Sen. Robin Wright-Jones, D-St. Louis, made the announcement at Sweetie Pie’s on Manchester Avenue, which, along with the company’s original location in Ferguson, are the restaurant’s two current locations.