Area restauranteur Lou Moshakos is finally offering some details about his Carolina Ale House on Glenwood South in Raleigh.

Moshakos, founder and owner of Raleigh's LM Restaurants, bought The Creamery building at 500 Glewnood South in 2009 but has not done much with it since then. He said he was focusing on opening the four Ale House locations he had in the works in Fayetteville, Wilmington, Greenville, S.C., and Augusta, Ga., before turning to this new project.

Today Moshakos said he has hired Frank Smith of Smith 2 Architecture & Design to be lead designer on the new building. Plans so far include a rooftop Carolina Ale House with a retractable roof, and a Mediterranean restaurant on the ground level serving tapas-style food and an extensive wine list. Moshakos is also considering adding a banquet facility to the building.

However, fans are going to have a long wait in front of them. Moshakos said he expects demolition of the current building to begin this summer and construction of the new building to start late this year.

Raleigh's Carolina Ale House will expand to Charlotte in the new year with a new restaurant opening there in the spring.

Carolina Ale House is the flagship chain of Raleigh restaurateur Lou Moshakos, whose LM Restaurants operates Carolina Ale House, Taverna Agora, New Bern Subs and a number of other restaurants throughout the area.

Established in 1999, Carolina Ale House has 15 locations: six in the Triangle, plus locations in Wilmington and Fayetteville, the Raleigh-Durham International Airport, three locations in South Carolina, one in Georgia and two in South Florida. The Charlotte location will open at 4th Street and College and will employ 120 people. It is the company's first venture into the Charlotte market.

Local restauranteur Lou Moshakos continues to tinker with his company's lineup of Triangle restaurants.

In his latest move, Moshakos has flipped his Miami Subs shop at 3701 New Bern Ave. in Raleigh and turned it into New Bern Subs. The shop will still serve items including Philly cheesesteaks, subs, gyros and wings. And there are some new menu items as well, such as the turkey caesar pita.

Moshakos, who at one point early in his career owned 10 Miami Subs restaurants said, "The Miami Subs franchise was moving in one direction and I wanted to move in another. It made sense to keep the location, as it has done very well over the years."

Moshakos and his LM Restaurants company are also behind the area's Carolina Ale House chain and have a total of 19 restaurants.