Imagine living in Your Father’s Mustache
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.
wow, a great building to renovate. I wonder if the owner still has the train that was in the middle of the restaurant. I have great memories of my family and I going for dinner at the spaghetti wearhouse before going to see the nutcracker at sheas during christmas. We always sat in the "bed" table, which was amazing for a kid like me!
lets hope that the existig parking lot does not become a permanent part of this project.
Great if they get way from rental-only developments...We need more CONDOs...or CO-OPs...a healthy mix between the two...'OWNERSHIP'...so that potential buyers have a vested interest in the City...in 'New Buffalo'...
I always loved this building!
I agree with BFLORome, we need more mix of styles downtown (what will happen if and when Loft living becomes un-popular?)> And also, I hope the parking lot next to door does not stay an empty lot either, how about extending the developement to cover the entire lot. Imangine the entire corner of a modern addition with balcanys and even first floor space for retail/deli/restaurant/cafe .
Gabe's recent thread (excellent, by the way) about 're-urbanizing' Buffalo speaks to this need for 'ownership'...You want 'Critical Mass'...? You can't do it with rental properties alone. That results in nothing more than a transient population that can come and go...with no vested interest in 'New Buffalo.'
remove the lot? where are these residents going to park? If I buy a condo there I want something other than street parking on the East Side thank you
Build over the lot with underground parking....Sound better. We are sick of seeing surface all over downtown and through out our urban core.
i agree, cost prohibitive though
This is why we need to encourage MASS TRANSIT in this region. If we had a REAL SUBWAY and better bus service, we may get more people to take the alternative way of transportation than to depend on a car, to destroy our city fabric.
If I lived and worked downtown, I would'nt need a car..For what? Our downtown is walkable (not a huge area to cover), and several places for food, entertainment, eat, sight see, and so on.
Keep your fingers crossed for this one.
How's about a nice local pub downstairs?