Tap House gets OK for expansion of operation
HEIDI DESCH | Hagadone News Network | UPDATED 7 years, 8 months AGO
Heidi Desch is features editor and covers Flathead County for the Daily Inter Lake. She previously served as managing editor of the Whitefish Pilot, spending 10 years at the newspaper and earning honors as best weekly newspaper in Montana. She was a reporter for the Hungry Horse News and has served as interim editor for The Western News and Bigfork Eagle. She is a graduate of the University of Montana. She can be reached at [email protected] or 406-758-4421. | March 27, 2018 4:12 PM
Whitefish City Council last week approved an expansion of the Montana Tap House on Wisconsin Avenue.
The Resich Family Partnership, owners of the business, requested a conditional use permit from the city to expand the bar and restaurant. Plans call for constructing an 868-square-foot addition onto the south side of the existing building to add an internal restaurant and expansion of retail space.
Mayor John Muhlfeld praised the business after Council approved the request.
“This is a great revitalization of that property,” he said. “This has been a welcome addition to the north side of Whitefish.”
The business already has a CUP to operate a bar/tavern without restaurant services, but the expansion required a second CUP.
The change will require the owner to add additional parking, which is planned at four additional spaces for a total of 50 spaces on the site. No landscaping changes are required because the property already meets landscaping requirements.
Hours of operation are expected to remain the same at Sunday through Thursday, 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. and Friday and Saturday, 11 a.m. to 10 p.m.
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