A cafe, bike repair shop and meeting spot will replace a long-vacant building in Dorchester’s Upham’s Corner.

Boston’s Department of Neighborhood Development designated the redevelopment of the historic Upham’s Corner Comfort Station on Columbia Road to a partnership of Historic Boston Inc. and The American City Coalition in 2015. The Bowdoin Bike School is also a partner in the project, which is set to open in spring of 2019.

Historic Boston Inc. and The American City Coalition are working with Noahde Amor, founder of Dorchester’s Bowdoin Bike School, to repurpose the existing building, which has been empty since 1977.

The former rest station, a stucco 940-square-foot facility with full basement, is undergoing $1.4 million in renovation and improvements that will create a full-service bicycle shop joined with a Sip & Spoke coffee shop. Historic Boston Inc. is the developer and will own the building and lease it to operator.

The Comfort Station served Boston’s streetcar system and is near the Upham’s Corner Station of the MBTA commuter rail’s Fairmount line. Built in 1912, the 1-story stucco and tile “mission style” building was designed by architect William Besarick, who also designed the municipal building at the corner of Columbia Road and Bird Street, as well as many triple-decker residences in the area.

Fundraising totaling $450,000, plus $365,000 in Community Preservation Funds, were combined with capital from the tenant and permanent financing secured by Historic Boston to make the project possible. Historic Boston Inc. will employ $176,000 in proceeds from Massachusetts Historic Rehabilitation Tax Credits as a funding source to save and establish the new uses for the historic structure.

The Sip & Spoke Café proposal was chosen for support from Boston’s Department for Neighborhood Development. The architect for the development is Utile, Inc. Architecture + Planning. The contractor is MJ Mawn Inc.