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Two established Lockport entities are moving.

The Chapel at Lockport is moving its administrative facilities from the Old Post Office at 1 East Ave., as well as its weekly worship site — currently the Historic Palace Theatre — to the former St. Mary's Parish Center at 25 Walnut Street.

The Chapel, which has a primary service location at Crosspoint Business Park in Getzville, expanded to downtown Lockport in April of 2010. It has been holding Sunday services at the Palace Theatre to minister to Lockportians who found the commute to Crosspoint too difficult. At the same time, they started leasing the 6,000 square-foot space in the Old Post Office for administrative offices and supplemental ministries.

"We're still finalizing when we can move in," said Chapel at Lockport Pastor Jonathan Drake of the move to Walnut Street, "but we're hoping and praying that we can be in there by June."

The new Walnut Street facility has more than twice the space the Chapel currently has in the Old Post Office and allows the church to house both its office and services under the same roof.

"We can do all that we need to do — and then some — in the parish center," Drake said.

More on the Chapel's move can be found on a website devoted to it, http://www.forlockport.org.

Once The Chapel at Lockport has vacated the Old Post Office, Fitzgerald's, a bar currently located at 392 Ohio St., will begin to transform that space for its own needs. It's expected that construction of the new Fitzgerald's will begin in June and that the new location will be open by Sept. 1, according to a Fitzgerald's Facebook post from Monday.

There had been earlier speculation and rumor that Fitzgerald's would move into the UAW Hall at 524 Walnut St.

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