Photos: Hearth wood-fired pizza joins Middle Way Cafe

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Ashley Day, right, and colleagues with Kuchar Construction work to prepare the new Hearth wood-fired pizza restaurant for a soft opening next week at the Northern Lights Center on Friday, January 15, 2016, in Midtown. The design concept incorporates recycled wood and light fixtures from around Anchorage and the Kenai Peninsula as well as wood chairs from a Midwestern seminary.

Next week, Anchorage will get another wood-fired pizza restaurant with the opening of Hearth.

But owner Jon Campabello wants it to be more than that. With an interior that pairs rustic with modern, he hopes to create a "village" space between Hearth and his other restaurant, Middle Way Cafe.

The new space, which is set to open next week in Spenard's Northern Lights Center, is making the most of what it has. There's "flex space" that can seat people on either the cafe side or within Hearth. A new kitchen means more capacity for baking at Middle Way. There's a small section that includes a "baby" La Bodega specialty beer and wine shop. In May, Campabello hopes to expand outside with a covered patio.

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