River City Brewing in Wichita adding garage doors, big patio

Outdoor patios are well known hangout spots at Wichita breweries, which get reward factors if retractable garage doorways enable breezes and prospects to flow into inside.

Now, Wichita’s oldest community brewery — River Town Brewing Corporation at 150 N. Mosley in Old City — is finishing up a huge remodel project that will get it caught up on the development.

The brewery — which when it opened in 1993 was 1 of just a few places to eat running in Old City — is in the method of including a big downstairs patio on the building’s north-experiencing aspect. When it opens, very likely in a pair of weeks, it will be able to maintain 15 new tables, each and every of which will be in a position to seat at minimum four persons.

Superior however, the new patio will not only be included overhead by an present deck but it also will be connected to the brewery’s main eating place by three retractable garage doors.

“It’ll be open up and ethereal and just have a entertaining truly feel,” mentioned Arnold, introducing that he enjoys the garage doors at places to eat like The Monarch and The Belmont.

In the previous, the brewery has had some out of doors seating, but most of it was on the upstairs deck and hooked up to the brewery’s event house, which is not typically applied in the course of normal small business hours. It was inconvenient and inefficient to have servers heading up and down the stairs to show up at to out of doors prospects, Arnold reported.

The brewery also has a couple of tables on the front west-dealing with deck, but to entry them, servers would have to maneuver through crowds waiting around for tables, which was also not perfect.

Out of doors eating was in need all through COVID-19, and Arnold said he determined it was time to transfer. He worked with the metropolis to get approval to develop the walkway on the building’s north side, and he also had to get authorization to transfer the wheelchair ramp, which is now on the northeast corner of the setting up.

Arnold states he strategies to stain the just-mounted concrete surface of the patio and will also increase some railing and overhead lights. What remains of the flaking mural on that side of the developing will continue to be.

The primary dining place is in a bit of disarray at the instant, with plywood covering the holes in the wall the place the garage doors are heading. But as soon as it is all finished, the inside will be flooded with light-weight, Arnold said.

Buyers have been excited as they’ve viewed construction development, he stated.

“This is undoubtedly the long term,” he stated. “Everyone needs to be outdoors.”