MRA approves $50k in facade assistance to help El Cazador expand, renovate - KPAX News

MISSOULA - The Missoula Redevelopment Agency gave its enthusiastic enactment to the renovation and enlargement of a fashionable Midtown restaurant, saying it could assistance spark further improvements successful an country described arsenic “tired.”

The committee connected Thursday approved a $50,000 petition from Maria and Alfredo Hernandez to regenerate the aged and inefficient solarium windows successful their El Cazador restaurant.

“The windows would assistance america a lot,” said Maria. “All that vigor – our bills spell up truly precocious with AC successful the summertime and vigor successful the winter. It's a large occupation close now.”

The $50,000 petition was approved arsenic portion of MRA's facade betterment programme and represents a tiny information of the full $1.2 cardinal task cost. The enactment volition grow the restaurant, marque it much businesslike and adhd outdoor seating connected a covered deck.

The task is expected to summation the restaurant's capableness by 20 customers portion the platform tin accommodate 24 radical during the summertime months.

“Right now, our edifice is truly tiny and our tables are cramped and uncomfortable,” Maria said. “(Our customers) are inactive utilized to the 1 downtown. We're trying to enactment with blistery plates here.”

The Hernandezes opened El Cazador astir 3 decades agone successful downtown Missoula. They purchased the South Avenue spot successful 2017 and person already invested successful an overhaul of the kitchen.

The downtown edifice has since closed, and the Hernandezes are present looking to grow and amended their South Avenue property. Doing truthful won praise and enactment from MRA committee members.

“I spot this corridor of South Avenue from Brooks Street to Reserve arsenic being precise bushed and successful request of important reinvestment,” said Tasha Jones. “History has proven that projects similar this person a ripple effect. There's large imaginable for renewed commercialized usage and enactment successful this area. I deliberation this volition bash a batch to assistance this country successful increasing and to redevelop.”

Alfredo said the edifice plans to enactment unfastened during the work. “We request to person our customers consciousness much relaxed,” helium added.