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New eatery to open at 321 Broadway

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By KEVIN NEVERS

It’s been awhile since Tonya’s Patisserie at 321 Broadway closed its doors.

So Chesterton Town Manager Bernie Doyle brought glad tidings to the Town Council at its meeting Monday night: a new restaurant is set to open in the space.

As Doyle understands it, the eatery will be called Ivy’s Bohemia House and--somewhat unusually for a bistro--it will be be open from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., serving breakfast cafe-style in the morning, then sit-down dining at lunch and dinner.

And it’s applied for a three-way alcohol license, under the aegis of the “riverfront designation” approved by the council in 2009.

The riverfront area--which allows a municipality to circumvent population quotas on alcohol licenses--extends by ordinance 3,000 feet from either bank of Coffee Creek as it winds south to north through the Downtown. Very roughly, those limits describe a district bounded--west of Coffee Creek--by the CSX tracks to the north, East Porter Ave. to the south, and as far west as Eighth Street; and--east of Coffee Creek--by the Norfolk Southern tracks to the south, the east arm of the Little Calumet River to the north, and as far east as Roberts Road.

Ivy’s Bohemia House would join three other eateries which have secured alcohol licenses under the riverfront designation: the Octave Grill at 137 S. Calumet Road, Villanova Pizzeria & Bistro at 213 Broadway, and the Lemon Tree at 356 Indian Boundary Road.

Doyle believes that Ivy’s Bohemia House will open in the next four to six weeks.

Gadzala Rocks the IDEM Audit

In other business, Town Engineer Mark O’Dell reported that MS4 Operator Jennifer Gadzala successfully shepherded the various municipal departments through a “good housekeeping” audit conducted by the Indiana Department of Management.

The point of the audit: to ensure that all departments have in place proper stormwater pollution prevention protocols and are actually complying with them. IDEM is concerned, for instance, with spill prevention and cleanup technquies, with the storage of potentially hazardous materials, and with run-off from facilities and vehicles.

Gadzala in fact “aced the audit,” O’Dell said, and well in advance of it “did an excellent job meeting with department heads and keeping them up to date on standard operating procedures. And kudos to all department heads for helping out.”

Remarked Member Jim Ton, R-1st, Gadzala “does an outstanding job and deserves our appreciation.”

“She sets the bar pretty high for the other local communities,” O’Dell agreed.

Rebuilding Together

Ton took a moment at the end of the meeting to urge folks to sign up for, and participate in, Rebuilding Together Duneland, on Saturday, April 25.

Volunteerism is one of the signal features of life in Duneland, Ton said, and “it’s a very central and very important part of this town.”

 

Posted 3/11/2015

 
 

 

 

 

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