Gastamo plans new restaurants in Central Park, Westminster, Parker
Gastamo Group is retaining its plate full.
The Denver-based restaurant group is opening a 3rd Girl Nomada in Central Park, bringing Homegrown Faucet & Dough to Parker and opening two of its ideas within the former C.B. Potts in Westminster, based on homeowners Jean-Philippe Failyau and Peter Newlin.
“Within the metropolis of Denver, if we don’t do a challenge there are 5 different individuals behind us that may,” Newlin stated. “The purpose of constructing these hospitality eating places is changing into this value-add … which is a part of the rationale we actually shifted our focus to those unbelievable markets that encompass the Denver core.”
In Central Park, Girl Nomada is anticipated to open subsequent yr in 4,000 sq. toes at 7301 E. twenty ninth Avenue, throughout the City Heart at Central Park purchasing middle.
JLL dealer Lorenzo Harris, who represented Gastomo in all three offers alongside colleague Sam Zaitz, stated the area was house to Casey’s Pub for nearly 20 years earlier than it closed in late 2022.
“This restaurant is 25-plus years previous so it wants quite a lot of rehab … a whole intestine job,” Newlin stated. “And in the end for a second-generation restaurant constructing it’s actually necessary you alter the notion of the area.”
The ice cream store Excessive Level Creamery just lately opened its fourth location in City Heart at Central Park. And Naples-based pizza restaurant Rosso Pomodoro will open later this yr.
Gastamo’s Girl Nomada, in the meantime, made its debut in 2021, serving coastal-style Mexican delicacies in Olde City Arvada. A second location in Lakewood debuted final yr.
“How will we maintain it conventional to some extent, and make it somewhat extra enjoyable and playful, add the Gastamo contact,” Failyau stated of the meals.
Additional south, in Parker, Gastamo purchased 19320 Cottonwood Drive final yr for somewhat greater than $3 million to open the fourth Homegrown Faucet & Dough, which serves wood-fired pizza.
“Gastamo Group is admittedly making an attempt to amass the true property for all initiatives we’re doing,” Newlin stated. “We’re making an attempt to open eating places to run for generations and if that’s the case, it makes it a lot simpler to overinvest in infrastructure.”
Work has already began on the 6,115-square-foot constructing, which Newlin stated he expects to be completed by year-end. Along with inside renovations, he stated, the corporate is including a big out of doors area that may embody bocce ball courts.
“How do you merge Homegrown with a neighborhood park has form of been the thought course of,” Newlin stated.
Failyau grew up simply north of Parker and stated he has wished to convey a Gastamo Group idea to the city for years.
“I believe what we’ve discovered is individuals are just a bit bored with Chili’s and so forth, so when you possibly can present a downtown Denver idea to those communities, the extent of pleasure is there,” Failyau stated.
Along with Parker, the group plans to open one other Homegrown in Westminster this yr. However this one can be somewhat completely different.
Newlin stated they purchased the 12,000-square-feet constructing at 1257 W. one hundred and twentieth St. in 2022 for roughly $2.65 million and plan to show it right into a twin restaurant.
Homegrown will function on one facet of the constructing, whereas the Gastamo Group’s different Mexican idea, Perdida, will take the opposite.
“Definitely it’s the most important improvement we’ve completed so far,” Newlin stated. “Completely two completely different experiences, however targeted on constructing complementary manufacturers.”
Failyau opened his first restaurant, Park Burger, in 2009. That’s the place he met Newlin, who was a waiter on the restaurant earlier than changing into associate. The duo fashioned Gastamo Group and now have seven ideas, together with Birdcall, Park & Co. and Perdida.
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