By Kim McDarison
The Fort Atkinson City Council approved on Tuesday, March 16, a change in the alcohol license premise description for Creamery 201, a downtown event venue, to include a private outdoor patio.
The change allows the company, which caters to special events such as weddings, fundraisers, and corporate functions, among others, the ability to serve alcohol to guests within the outdoor patio area.
Previously, the premise, as defined on the license, in which alcohol could be sold, served, consumed, and stored included the 15,000-square-foot indoor venue operated by the company and located on the second floor of the 1920s-built, five-story building.
Creamery 201 owner and event planner Katie Stahl requested the change in premise description, City Clerk Michelle Ebbert said, so clients celebrating within her venue could make use of the outdoor space.
While the event venue is on the building’s second floor, the patio is on the ground level and is screened by landscaping and a lattice fence, Ebbert noted in a memo to council.
The new premise description was approved with the inclusion of the following language: “The second floor of 201 N. Main Street; the elevator/stairwell and hallway on (the) first floor leading to (an) adjacent private patio; and outdoors, the private patio contingent upon the addition of a stanchion and rope along the northwestern edge of the patio to limit access to the sidewalk during events.”
Stahl, who attended the virtual city council meeting, responding to a council member’s questions, said since the downturn in business brought about by COVID-19, she was noticing that her business was “starting to pick up again.”
Creamery 201, according to its website, has been owned by the Stahl family since 2016 and began operating as an event venue in 2017.
Built by Creamery Package of Chicago, the building has housed several different manufacturing businesses. The space has a guest capacity of 360, the website notes.
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