Wyman Stacey is getting close to rebuilding the Rocky Flats Lounge, a bar housed in the former payroll building of the Rocky Flats Plant and known for its Friday fish fries and Green Bay Packers games.
“I got the liquor license pretty much taken care of today,” Stacey said Friday. “I wanted to get that done before I decided on whether to rebuild.”
Last July, , which is located on Colo. 93 between Boulder and Golden and across the street from what was once the Rocky Flats Plant, a nuclear weapons production facility.
It was turned into a bar in about 1960 and Stacey, who already worked there, bought it in 1983.
Stacey said that investigators looked for a couple months but could never nail down the cause of the fire, but they know it started in the kitchen before charring most of the interior.
Now that the insurance part of the ordeal is done, Stacey and his wife Pat are meeting with the contractor and landowners on Sunday to began plans for rebuilding. If all goes according to plan, he hopes to reopen in a few months.
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