The city of Boston has designated a partnership of Historic Boston Inc. and the American City Coalition as redevelopers of the Comfort Station in Upham’s Corner into The Bike Kitchen, a full-service bicycle shop and café.

The groups are working with Noah Hicks, founder of Dorchester’s Bowdoin Bike School, on the project designed by Utile Inc. Architecture + Planning. The 1922 Comfort Station, a former shelter for streetcar commuters that has been abandoned since 1977, would be preserved and reactivated and the adjacent burying ground would be made more publicly accessible for visitors.

Historic Boston Inc. will be the real estate developer and long-term owner of the property. HBI will structure the project’s financing and oversee all phases of design, engineering and construction.  The project is expected to require use of the Massachusetts Rehabilitation Tax Credit, which HBI will seek from the Massachusetts Historical Commission.

The American City Coalition is a minority partner whose technical assistance to the project will include business support services, financial support for pre-development costs, coordination of community outreach and ongoing fundraising for capital and operational costs.

The city’s department of neighborhood development chose the team from a field of four proposals for the site.