BERWYN – Two well-known food businesses, McDonald's and Turano Baking Co., are redeveloping the sites of two demolished buildings on Harlem Avenue in Berwyn.

The McDonald's Corporation is putting a more modern restaurant at the southeast corner of Cermak Road and Harlem Avenue, the site of its former “floating” restaurant. Turano in Berwyn has bought the site of a former Marathon gas station at 1427 S. Harlem Ave. for a garage to repair its fleet of vehicles and replace an Oak Park building that burned a year ago.

A late February opening is expected for the new McDonald's restaurant, Assistant City Administrator Evan Summers said. The building was torn down in late summer, he said.

Berwyn Development Corporation Executive Director Anthony Griffin said McDonald's had been doing compaction tests to make sure the ground can support the new building.

McDonald's refreshes stores on a regular basis, Summers said, adding the 1980s design was dated. The company wanted to match the designs of the businesses in the Gateway development across the street on the north side of Cermak Road, he said.

The old restaurant building was made to appear as if it and its roof were floating. This was a particular design choice given to this McDonald‘s while it was being built, according to the Why Berwyn marketing campaign's website.

“They didn’t want to be the ugly restaurant on the corner,” Summers said.

The new restaurant will have two drive-thru lanes, the newest store model, he said. The McDonald's at Ogden Avenue near Grove Avenue in south Berwyn moved across and down the street to have two drive-thru lanes, Summers said.

A McDonald's spokesman did not return calls for comment.

Meanwhile, the Turano maintenance garage is expected to be operating by early 2016, Director of Administration Anthony Turano said. The site was ideal because of its location and use as a former gas station, he said.

“It worked well for our needs,” Turano said.

Summers said with winter coming up, the weather could delay construction.

Turano confirmed the garage will replace the building at 6520 Roosevelt Road in Oak Park, damaged in a Nov. 11, 2014, explosion and fire. Four employees were injured and bread delivery trucks burned.

Employees were changing what they thought was an empty propane tank on one of the vehicles at about 2:15 p.m. The tank was full, and propane escaped into the air before being ignited by a gas heater, causing a violent explosion, a fire official at the time said.

Turano said the company is “working with Oak Park for a future development” at that site but did not elaborate further on development details.