Springfield, IL (WTAX) Joey McLaughlin talks with the Springfield Business Journals’ Michelle Ownbey about this week’s biggest business stories.

The wait is almost over for fans of Wm. Van’s Coffee House, with the relocated and revamped coffee shop scheduled to open at 7 a.m. on Friday, April 19, in Vinegar Hill Mall.

The Railyard has reopened for the season, following a brief opening last November.

A greenhouse in Scott County, fifty miles west of Springfield, is drawing national attention for a self-serve operation in a small building that is addressing the issue of rural American food deserts.

Doubling the BOS Center’s size would result in a similar increase in conventions coming to the capital city, and construction of a new 300-bed hotel adjacent to the center is needed, according to a recently completed feasibility study of the potential impact of a newly formed tourism improvement district on downtown Springfield.