Buffalo Rising

Imagine living in Your Father’s Mustache

by westcoastperspective


It may soon be possible in the building which housed the former oddly named restaurant anyway. Kevin Townsell, the owner of the three-story building at 141 Elm Street, is expected to kick-start plans to convert the structure into approximately 32 upscale apartments or condominiums. The building has been home to a string of restaurants and bars beginning with Spaghetti Warehouse in 1988, Your Father’s Mustache, Sweetwater’s, and finally SensationZ which closed in 2004. Townsell has been working on the residential conversion project for the past year. The 40,000 square foot building was formerly a lumber mill operated by E.M. Hager & Sons and the Hager Mills name may be utilized for the new project. It is the latest in a series of recent and planned investments made on the east side of downtown including Oak School Lofts, the Buehl Building renovation, Old Editions Bookstore, Mudpies Children’s Museum, Choco-Logo, the Public Safety Building, Napa Auto Store and Erie Community College’s city campus expansion.