The new Bottoms Up South location on 5th and Madison (at the former Bickler’s) is causing some controversy with neighbors.
Fox 6 has the story here. What do you think? Post your comments below.
As background: The Legislation & Permits Committee did approve the bar’s license some months ago, but we typically don’t ask much about the concept for a new bar when one is proposed. (I did ask on this one, and the answer I got was pretty open-ended, if I recall.)
And I’m not sure what role, if any, the committee should even play in deciding what is a “right” concept vs. a “wrong” one, short of a concept disallowed by ordinance, of course. Should the council dictate a business plan?
Also, the bar owners — who have successfully opened three other bars in the area, and who include the owner of Milwaukee Harley-Davidson — checked out fine … and in fact had more experience with this than most applicants we see. But even with that, I don’t look at bar-owning experience as a prerequesite for a license, either.
Anyway, check out the Bottoms Up website here. Here is their Facebook page.
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