The owners of Radio Bar are planning their next Mid City business venture: a beer garden that would be located about a half mile down Government Street from the popular bar they opened about four years ago.
“It’s going to be a beer garden with a lot of covered patio space outdoors where the community can come to gather and hang out,” says Brian Baiamonte, who co-owns Radio Bar with Dave Remmetter. “It’s going to be a pretty cool concept.”
Radio Bar manager Kelli Paxton is going to be a co-owner in the new venture with Baiamonte, who is also a photographer for Business Report, and Remmetter. They submitted an application today to the city-parish Planning Commission requesting the property at 3808 Government St., which is at the intersection of Steele Boulevard, to be rezoned to allow for alcohol sales at the site of the planned beer garden. The commission will take up the request for the zoning change on the vacant property at its September 21 meeting.
“This is just the first step, but we’d like to do it within a year,” Baiamonte says of the development plan. “We’re going to do it as fast as possible.”
As for a name, Baiamonte says that’s not been nailed down just yet, adding “we’re leaning toward Mid City Beer Garden.” According to the rezoning request filed today, the development would include two parking lot entrances and exits—one to Government Street and the other to Steele Boulevard.
Read about other new developments in Mid City in the cover story of the current issue of Business Report.
—Steve Sanoski
