Fire reported at former Janesville restaurant Friday night

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(Gazette photo) A former Janesville restaurant undergoing renovations to re-open under another name experiences a fire.

Janesville firefighters were called to the building that formerly housed Steve and Holly’s Restaurant on North Franklin Street just after 8:00 Friday night.

Upon arrival crews found a large amount of smoke coming from the building and the fire took a little over an hour to contain.

The building for many years housed Cherry’s Steak & Prime. It shares a wall with a building to the north, the former Sizzlin’ Grill, which has a for sale sign in its window.