Friday, June 7, 2013

New Bar in Downtown

Looks as if there may be a new bar moving into downtown.  On the agenda for the Liquor Control Commission 's next meeting is an application for a Class B liquor license for the University Lounge, which  lists its address at 520 S. Illinois Ave, the site of the recently closed Country Goddess.  The building seems pretty small for a bar, as it is only about as big as the El Greco building.  Plan apparently however is to add a beer garden to the building, if approved, which would likely go in the empty lot next door.

However, putting a beer garden there would run counter to the city's expressed desires of seeing an actual storefront infill the location, one of the reasons, from what I have heard, that the city did not wish to sell the property to El Greco for construction of an outside dining patio.

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